Kia ora Grace, I acknowledge receipt of your Official Information Act request dated 4 July 2023.

If we have any questions or need to seek clarification on any points we will be in touch soon. Otherwise, we will seek to respond to your request as soon as practicable and no later than 20 working days after the date your request was received (by 2 August 2023). If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an extension of this timeframe.

Ngā mihi
Jenny

Jenny Shaw
Official Information and Compliance Coordinator | Kaituitui Pārongo Ōkawa me te Tautukunga

Office of the Registrar | Te Tari o Te Pouroki University of Otago | Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo New Zealand | Aotearoa

Kia ora Grace

We refer to your information request dated 4 July 2023 made under the Official Information Act 1982 (Act). You have requested "the grade breakdowns by number of students receiving each numerical grade for ZOOL 315, ZOOL 313, and ZOOL 316 for 2023".

Please find attached the information you have requested in relation to ZOOL313 and ZOOL316. At the present time, the grade distribution for ZOOL315 for Semester 1 2023 has not been finalised – as there are special examinations that are still being completed. Once special examinations have taken place for this paper and all student results have been finalised, we will be happy to release the grade distribution for this paper to you. We are not comfortable releasing the grade distributions for papers before all special examination results have been confirmed – as this may affect students’ wellbeing and disrupt students’ performance in the special examinations. We also want to ensure that we are providing the full and complete mark and grade distributions for this paper.

In the attached grade and mark distributions, we note that students who withdrew from the papers or received an Aegrotat Pass grade (not a mark) are excluded from the data.

We will be in touch once the results have been finalised for paper ZOOL315.

If you are not satisfied with our response to your information request, section 28(3) of the Act provides you with the right to ask an Ombudsman to investigate and review this response. However, we would welcome the opportunity to discuss any concerns with you first.

Ngâ mihi
Jenny

Jenny Shaw
Official Information and Compliance Coordinator | Kaituitui Pârongo Ôkawa me te Tautukunga

Office of the Registrar | Te Tari o Te Pouroki University of Otago | Te Whare Wânanga o Otâgo New Zealand | Aotearoa

Kia ora, please find attached the University of Otago's response to your Official Information Act request dated 4 July 2023.

Ngā mihi
Jenny

Jenny Shaw
Official Information and Compliance Coordinator | Kaituitui Pārongo Ōkawa me te Tautukunga

Office of the Registrar | Te Tari o Te Pouroki University of Otago | Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo New Zealand | Aotearoa