Scholarship


Students in a secondary school have the opportunity to gain a Scholarship.

A Scholarship is a monetary award to recognise top students. It does not attract credits nor contribute towards a qualification
but the fact that a student has gained a Scholarship appears on the Record of Achievement.

The Scholarship exams enable students to be assessed against challenging standards, and are demanding for the most able students in each subject. Scholarship students are expected to demonstrate high-level critical thinking, abstraction and generalisation, and to integrate, synthesise and apply knowledge, skills, understanding and ideas to complex situations.

It replaces the previous Scholarship qualification and awards.

Scholarship Eligibility and Awards

Scholarship Awards recognise excellence for secondary school students.

Eligibility

Scholarship candidates need to be enrolled full-time at a New Zealand secondary school or wharekura in the year of examination, undertaking a course in the applicable areas of learning.
Full details of the eligibility requirements and the costs of entry are in the Assessment and Certification Rules and Procedures.

 Awards

There are 5 classes or levels of monetary awards. These range in value from $500 per subject to $10,000 each year for three years.

There are conditions which govern these awards:

  1. Where a candidate meets the criteria for more than one award, he or she will receive only the award of the highest monetary value in most circumstances. However, if a candidate receives a Top Subject Scholar Award, and also gets Scholarship in other subjects he or she will also receive one $500 Single Subject Award. 
  2. Eligible candidates can defer taking up the monetary awards for one year. 
  3. Scholarship awards cannot be aggregated over a period of time. A candidate needs to attain Scholarship awards in the same year to be eligible for the top three monetary awards (Scholarship Award, Outstanding Scholar Award and Premier Award).
  4.  To be eligible for a monetary award a candidate must:

 - be either a New Zealand citizen or a permanent resident
 - be enrolled in tertiary study in New Zealand in the years they receive monetary awards
 - maintain a 'B' grade average during their tertiary study in order for them to receive one of the monetary 
   awards over a three  year period.
 

  1. International fee-paying candidates are not eligible for the Scholarship monetary awards. However, they will have their Scholarship success recorded on their Record of Achievement.

 

  1. All Scholarship awards will be recorded on the candidate's Record of Achievement.

Single Subject Awards
  • For candidates who get Scholarship in up to two subjects.
  • 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 three Scholarship subjects with at least two at "Outstanding" level or more than three Scholarships with at least one at "Outstanding".
  • $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.

 PDF of scholarship information evening