9 February 2026
Daniel Spencer
By email
: [FYI request #33321 email]
Dear Daniel
OIA 25.403 Summary of statistics of Course Grades
I refer to the Official Information Act (the Act) request dated
18 December 2025 regarding a Summary of
statistics of Course Grades. You have specifical y requested:
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For all 100, 200, and 300 level papers within the MATH, STAT, EMTH, COSC, DATA, FINC, and ECON
course codes, please could you provide the final grade distribution for the paper, broken down by GPA
value according to the grade received.
A further amendment to this request was provided on 19 December 2025:
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I would like to make an amendment to my request, to limit the scope of my original request to the
relevant semester 1 and 2 papers from the 2025 academic year.
Where a course has five or less students in it, the overal pass rate of the course has been provided in lieu of
the grade distribution. This is to protect the privacy of those in these smal er courses 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.
Where a course has six or more students in it, where there are five or less students in a particular grade, 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 grades.
Some courses do not have letter grades, where the option are Pass, Fail or Withdraw. For completeness, these
have also been included. For further information about the grading scale at UC, please se
e here.
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
