Tomorrow morning, 7300 Otago secondary school pupils, along with 135,000 others throughout New Zealand, will enter the official exam period.
From November 14 to December 2, 116 NCEA and NZ Scholarship exams will be conducted in 404 centres.
The first are two scholarship exams - classical studies and agricultural and horticultural science.
Nationally, the largest number sitting an exam will be for level 1 English, with more than 47,000 pupils on Tuesday, and the smallest number, 25, will sit scholarship Latin on Monday .
In Otago, the largest number at an exam will be 2194 pupils, sitting level 1 maths on November 20.
Just one pupil will sit scholarship science on November 24 and level 2 Te Reo Rangatira on November 26.
More than 68,000 pupils, 2800 of them in Otago, will sit level 1 exams; 55,000, 2400 from Otago, will sit level 2 exams; and 36,000, 1700 from Otago, will sit level 3 exams.
Scholarship exams attracted 8900 pupils nationally, and 380 from Otago.
A team of more than 2000 markers will finish grading papers by Christmas.
NCEA results are scheduled to reach pupils by mid-January and scholarship results by mid-February.
This year is the first time that pupils can sign up for reminders and updates on social networking website Twitter.
