Students can check their NCEA results online from today.

The New Zealand Qualifications Authority says final results for more than 160,000 students will be available via its website.

Students can log in to find out how they performed in last year's exams, whether they had achieved an NCEA qualification, and if they did well enough to get merit or excellence endorsements and University Entrance.

They will also be able to see if their school has awarded them learning recognition credits, and if so, how many.

The government allowed schools to allocate the extra credits to make up for pandemic-related disruption to learning and students were eligible for up to 10 at NCEA level 1 and up to eight at levels 2 and 3.

Te Kura (formerly known as the Correspondence School) says its summer school will help students who need more credits for an NCEA qualification or University Entrance.

Chief executive Mike Hollings says the school usually works with as many as 2000 students each summer and he expects greater numbers than normal due to disruption caused by the pandemic and by extreme weather events in the South Island last year.

NZQA says students who had forgotten their National Student Number or student login details will be able to get assistance from a chatbot on its website.

The qualifications authority also says it has extended its contact centre opening hours until 8pm tonight, with extra staff available to answer students' queries about their NCEA results.

The contact centre could be contacted on 0800 697 296 or by e-mailing helpdesk@nzqa.govt.nz.

NZQA says students will be able to access their assessed NCEA exam papers online from January 24 and students can then apply for a review or reconsideration if they believed an error had been made in marking.

It expected to release results for New Zealand Scholarship exams on February 8.

Schools reported that students had achieved relatively few internally assessed credits before exams began and some teachers and principals told RNZ last year was particularly difficult due to high rates of staff and student illness.

By the end of November schools had logged an average of 50.4 credits for each of their NCEA students, most of them for assessments completed before exams began.

At the same time in 2021 the average was 50.5 credits, in 2020 it was 52.8, and in 2019, the year before the pandemic began, 56.6.

-RNZ.