13 October 2025
Nina
By email
: [FYI request #32318 email]
Dear Nina
OIA 25.346 Grade Distributions
I refer to the Official Information Act (the Act) request dated 15 September 2025 regarding Grade
Distributions. You have specifical y requested:
For the courses:
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ENVR210
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ENVR209
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GEOG215
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HLTH214
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BIOL275
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BIOL274
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BIOL209
•
ANTA201
could you please provide the fol owing:
(1) The final grade distribution for the paper (broken down by letter grade, e.g. A+, A, A-, ... etc.)
(2) The number of students who completed the paper
(3) The mean and median final marks for the paper (percentage)
If the papers had anything notable that would sway the statistics please also note that down
On 16 September 2025, the Information and Records Management (IRM) team asked the fol owing clarifying
question:
May you please clarify if you are after the results for the most recent occurrence of the courses below - i.e 2025
or 2024 depending on which Semester the course was offered in?
A fol ow up with the same clarification question was sent on 22 September 2025. We have not heard from you
regarding this clarification. Therefore, we have proceeded on the basis of providing the grade distribution for
the most recent occurrence of the course. For the first four courses listed this is Semester 2 2024, the last four
courses listed it is Semester 1 2025.
Please note that where there between one and five students in a particular category, the actual number is not
provided, rather a range of less than or equal to five (≤5). This is to protect the individual’s privacy under s
9(2)(a) of the Act. It is in the public interest that individuals are not identifiable when providing information
about course numbers. For further information about the grading scale at UC, please se
e here.
There is no information held on whether anything notable swayed the requested statistics. Therefore, this
information is withheld under s 18(e), as it does not exist.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision. Information about
how to make a complaint is available at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.
Yours sincerely
Information and Records Management
