Macleans College NZQA Scholarship New Zealand’s Premier Secondary School Examination

A Overall Results (Top 8 Schools) 2009-2017 C Overall Results All Secondary Schools - Premier Scholarships 2005-2017 (Secondary Schools School Number of Scholarships achieving three or more Premier awards) 1 Wellington College (Boys) State School 1598 School Number of Scholarships 2 Auckland Grammar (Boys) State School 1534 Wellington College 17 3 Macleans College (Co-Ed) State School 1402 Macleans College 15 4 St Cuthbert’s College (Girls) Private School 1233 Auckland Grammar School 9 5 Westlake Boys’ (Boys) State School 1178 Westlake Boys’ High School 7 6 Rangitoto College (Co-Ed) State School 1033 St Cuthbert’s College 5 7 Burnside High School (Co-Ed) State School 959 St Kentigern College 5 8 Epsom Girls’ Grammar (Girls) State School 950 Mt Roskill Grammar School 4 Rangitoto College 4 Palmerston North Boy’s High School 4

B Overall Results Co-educational (Girls/Boys) Secondary Schools (Top 8 Schools) 2009-2017 The New Zealand Qualifications Authority Secondary Schools Scholarship Examination

School Number of Scholarships This examination has been provided for all New Zealand Secondary Schools and entry is open to 1 Macleans College 1402 all students. The examinations started in 2005. 2 Rangitoto College 1033 3 Burnside High School 959 It has been designed to test the abilities of top academic students and examinations are set in a wide variety of subjects. 4 Mt Albert Grammar School 785 5 Mt Roskill Grammar School 716 Students who are in the top 4% of candidates are able to gain a single subject Scholarship which 6 Hillcrest High School 545 is worth NZ$500.00 or 2,500 RMB. There are other awards for top performance in more than one 7 Avondale College 503 subject.

8 Takapuna Grammar 481 The elite award is Premier Scholarship and a minimum of four Outstanding single subject Scholarships (ie marks in the high 90s) are required to gain this prestigious prize worth NZ$30,000 or 150,000 RMB over three years of university study.

The Premier Scholarship is confined to the top 5-10 students in the examination every year.