The Year 10 Market Day is a preparation task for the Level 1 Market Day course. In that course, students will be required to write a business plan, conduct the business activity, then review and evaluate their performance. The business activity will be similar to a market day and students can earn 6 L1 NCEA credits if they complete it successfully.

The L2 market day was used as an opportunity to raise funds for the students in that course to set up their business groups and get some practice working together and prepare them for the L2 business activity standard.

That standard requires students to run their business activity in two cycles, reviewing their performance after cycle 1 and making necessary changes for cycle 2 in order to improve their performance.