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    An internet outage during NCEA exams yesterday means some students might turn to derived grades to counteract the disadvantage

    An internet outage during NCEA exams yesterday means some students might turn to derived grades to counteract the disadvantage


    Forty Auckland schools and more than a thousand students were disrupted by the hour-long Spark internet black-out.

    It affected multiple corporate customers and school internet provider, Network for Learning.

    Chief Executive Larrie Moore says nine schools were affected in the middle of exams.

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