What is the meaning of secondary and tertiary level qualifications in New Zealand?

Secondary is the same as 'high school' in the american term and tertiary meaning university, unitec, wintec, polytech etc. And i'm sure you know what 'qualifications' are

Tertiary Qualification Definition

secondary school is high school. We have NCEA (national certificate of educational achievement), which most schools offer, but some do overseas exams instead.

NCEA has 3 levels, level 1 is at year11, level 2 is year 12 and level 3 is at year 13. To pass you need to get a certain amount of credits eg 80 at achieved level. Achieved, merit and excellence are all passes with not achieved being a fail. Basically the more excellences and merit the better the passes.

Teritary is university/poly tech or other tertiary institute. They have certificates (normally under a year course), diploma (normally 2 years) and degree (3+ years). I think they are the same as elsewhere in the world.

It means nothing to your qualifications, everyone hates new zealand