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Scholarship
Scholarship is designed to extend our best secondary students and enable top scholars to be
identified and acknowledged. Students may enter one or more scholarship standard assessments
as well as their Level 3 assessments. There is a NZQA fee of $30 per subject.
The content assessed will be the same as that covered in Level 3 achievement standards. These
students are lateral thinkers who can synthesis and integrate concepts. Scholarship is an award not
a qualification and it will not attract credits or appear on a record of learning. It does earn a financial
reward.
SCHOLARSHIP SUBJECTS
Accounting
Agriculture and Horticultural Science
Art history
Biology
Chemistry
Chinese
Digital Technology
Drama
Economics
English
French
Geography
German
Graphics
History
Japanese
Latin
Mathematics with calculus
Media Studies
Music studies
Physical education
Physics
Science
Spanish
Statistics and Modelling
Te Reo Māori
Te Reo Rangatira
Technology (generic) *
Visual Arts – Design
Visual Arts – Painting
Visual Arts – Photography
Visual Arts – Printmaking
Visual Arts – Sculpture
*
Technology (generic) will cover biotechnology, electronics and control technology, materials
technology, production and process technology, food technology, structures and mechanisms, and information
and communications technology (ICT). Candidates will be able to submit a portfolio in one of those areas.
Scholarship Awards
Single subject awards
1 or 2 scholarships
A ‘one-off’ award of $500 per subject
Top subject scholar award for candidates who are top in one of the 27 scholarship subjects
$2,000 each year for three years as long as candidates maintain a “B”
grade average in tertiary study
Scholarship award
for candidates who get three or more scholarship subjects
$2,000 each year for three years as long as candidates maintain a “B”
grade average in tertiary study
Outstanding scholar award for the top 40-60 candidates who get a minimum of three scholarships
with at least two at “outstanding” level or more than three scholarships
with at least one at “outstanding” level
$5,000 each year for three years as long as candidates maintain a “B”
grade average in tertiary studies
Premier award
for the very top 5 to 10 candidates who get at least three scholarships at
“outstanding” level
$10,000 each year for three years as long as candidates maintain at
least a “B” grade average in tertiary studies