Live for term 3, 2025!
PAT Tuhituhi is an online, standardised writing assessment for ākonga from Year 5 to Year 10. It aligns to the English learning area of the New Zealand Curriculum, as well as to aspects of the NCEA co-requisite in literacy.
Students submit written responses through our NZCER Assist platform, and automated marking provides teachers with immediate scoring and feedback. This draws on a set of genre-specific rubrics adapted specifically for the Aotearoa context.
As with all our assessments, the primary purpose of PAT Tuhituhi is to support teaching and learning. It is intended to be a formative, low-stakes assessment – one of several approaches schools should use to determine how ākonga are progressing, rather than a solitary indicator of progress.
This is a brand-new writing assessment from NZCER, and is now available for schools to use through NZCER Assist. If you do not have an NZCER Assist account, please contact our Assessment Services team.
Key information
- Aratohu kaiako (Teacher guide) for PAT Tuhituhi available here
- Rubrics now available: Persuasive | Narrative | Recount | Explain
- Background information: Introducing PAT Tuhituhi
Pricing information for 2025
There is no subscription fee for accessing PAT Tuhituhi for 2025. You can add PAT Tuhituhi via the subscriptions screen if you are already signed up to NZCER Assist. If your school doesn't have an NZCER Assist account please contact our Assessment Services team and we will help you get set up.
Please note there is a $3.50 per student, per assessment fee for PAT Tuhituhi.