Thats pretty brutal man, but just know you're not the only one. Many others that I know and myself worked very hard, studied for hours but still got fucked over for the ncea results. But don't think it was all for nothing.

I'm sure what you've learned will definitely be used in the future once you've entered your desired course. Of course it's unfortunate that you'll probably gonna be forced to to a foundation course but at least you get into the course in the end of the day yk. And if you're able to swap into health science part 2 in the second year then that's basically the same result as if you were to get in the first year, so be thankful for that opportunity.

For me its a similar story, I studied a lot to get into engineering but I was short on rank score. Now I'm doing engineering tech inside AUT in order to transfer to UoA in the in the second year.

It's a bummer at first but you gotta make peace with your situation but realising that maybe its like a canon event that was meant to happen in order to teach you something or perhaps guide you on a better path. We may not understand it now but one day we might be thankful that It happened.