Poor geography rather than bad photography led to the downfall of Courtenay Scott-Hill on New Zealand's Next Top Model last week.

With the competition down to the top four contestants, the girls were sent out on "go-sees" - model slang for a job interview with designers.

The catch was, each model had to navigate her own way around Auckland with a map and a driver to help them.

GAIL SELKIRK/Stuff.co.nz DAZED AND CONFUSED: Courtenay Scott-Hill says she had never read a map before getting lost in Auckland during her 'go-sees' challenge.

Scott-Hill, 17, told Stuff.co.nz she knew she would get lost the minute they were given the challenge, having only been to Auckland once before as a child.

"I've never touched a map. I've never navigated anywhere in my life," she said.

"If I had watched last season's cycle I would have got my dad to teach me how to read a map before coming on the show. But I'd never watched New Zealand's Next Top Model before."

Scott-Hill said trying to find her way around the city and getting lost so many times affected her performance, and was part of the reason no designers chose to hire her.

"I think I was so flustered from getting lost and stressed from navigating and I don't think I let my true personality get across. I think I came across as stressed and like I didn't want to be there.

"I was really excited about the go-sees because I was expecting it. I thought I was really well prepared but obviously I wasn't. It was like the biggest epic fail ever."

The model said she was disappointed about not making it to the final three contestants.

"It was frustrating - the end was so close that I could taste it. That's just life though, someone had to go home and this week it had to be me," she said.

"I could so see [the elimination] coming. That's why when Sara said I was going home I didn't show much emotion, I was expecting it and I was kind of over it and really glad I was going home."

Scott-Hill said the atmosphere in the Top Model house changed in the last week, after the show's "bad girl" Dakota was eliminated.

"I think Danielle was over the moon about it. But I really liked Dakota and it was really sad to see her go.

"In the house there was no entertainment anymore, because Dakota had been really funny. And it was the business end of the competition and everyone was getting really tense and competitive."

With the competition now down to just three girls, Scott-Hill is in no doubt of who the winner will be.

"I think Michaela [Steenkamp] will win. She's been the most consistent and she's an all-round good model."

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