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However, in writing, results were 12 percentage points higher in the September 2022 pilot than in the July 2022 pilot, and 11 percentage points better again in the June 2023 assessment. [...] A plausible reason for the improved results in the June 2023 writing assessment is that schools would have been aware from the pilot data that the direct approach is much more challenging, especially in writing. [...] These data are consistent with the possibility that at least some of the increase in the proportion of students achieving in the June 2023 writing assessment was due to weaker candidates opting not to undertake the direct assessment. [...] Another factor contributing to the successive increases in achievement in the writing assessment may have been changes in the assessment process. [...] However, until the improvements in literacy and numeracy resulting from the reform of pedagogy and curriculum flow through into improved literacy and numeracy at NCEA level, the literacy and numeracy requirements should not be a co- requisite for NCEA.