2008 Scholarship Awards by Subject - Provisional

2007 Results

Scholarship Subject	Cohort	% Cohort Awarded Scholarship	Scholarship (including Outstanding)	Outstanding
Accounting	2,919	3.25%	95	8
Art History	1,843	2.88%	53	8
Biology	7,981	3.23%	258	31
Chemistry	7,232	3.00%	217	23
Classical Studies	5,140	3.11%	160	18
Drama	1,734	2.77%	48	6
Economics	4,432	3.00%	133	15
English	13,480	2.98%	402	58
Geography	5,920	3.02%	179	17
Graphics	1,448	2.90%	42	6
History	5,356	2.99%	160	17
Mathematics with Calculus	7,423	3.07%	228	29
Media Studies	2,659	3.08%	82	8
Music Studies	1,007	2.78%	28	5
Physical Education	3,796	2.40%	91	1
Physics	6,461	2.85%	184	21
Statistics and Modelling	13,468	2.93%	395	46
Technology	1,349	2.00%	27	5
Visual Arts	6,171	3.03%	187	25

The Technical Overview Group Assessment applied discretion for those level 3 subjects studied by fewer than 1000 year 13 Students. In these instances, the 3 percent tolerance was applied with discretion of plus or minus 5 students. Students must have demonstrated performance at Scholarship level.

Results for subjects studied at year 13 by less than 1000 students appear below:

Scholarship Subject	Cohort	% Cohort Awarded Scholarship	Scholarship (including Outstanding)	Outstanding
Chinese	197	5.58%	11	1
French	898	3.23%	29	5
German	364	3.85%	14	2
Japanese	763	3.01%	23	4
Latin	29	17.24%	5	1
Science	720	2.92%	21	3
Spanish	263	3.04%	8	1
Te Reo Māori	464	2.80%	13	2
Te Reo Rangatira	62	9.68%	6	1

2008 Scholarship Monetary Awards

Award	2008 Awardees attained:	No of Students
Premier Awards $10,000 each year for three years (for the very top 5-10 students) as long as they maintain at least a "B" grade average in tertiary studies	At least four Scholarships at "Outstanding" level.	10
Outstanding Scholar Awards $5,000 each year for three years (for the top 40-60 students) as long as they maintain a "B" grade average in tertiary studies	Either: at least two Scholarships at "Outstanding" level plus at least one at "Scholarship" level OR one Scholarship at "Outstanding" level plus at least four Scholarships.	47
Scholarship Award $2,000 each year for three years as long as students maintain a "B" grade average in tertiary studies	3 or more Scholarships	201
Top Subject Scholarship Awards $2,000 each year for three years as long as students maintain a "B" grade in tertiary studies	Top of Subject	15*
Single Subject Awards A "one-off" award of $500 per subject	1 or 2 Scholarships	1,774

*There are 25 top subject scholars - 15 receive top subject scholar monetary awards, the other 10 receive awards in other categories (in most circumstances, candidates will receive only the highest monetary award they are eligible for).

Scholarship mark ranges

The following table shows the range of marks for each subject in 2008.

	No award	Scholarship		Outstanding Scholarship
	Mark Range	Mark Range	No. of Candidates	Mark Range	No. of Candidates
Accounting	0-25	26-36	87	37-48	8
Art History	0-12	13-18	45	19-24	8
Biology	0-14	15-19	227	20-24	31
Chemistry	0-18	19-30	194	31-40	23
Chinese	0-25	26-30	10	31-32	1
Classical Studies	0-14	15-20	142	21-24	18
Drama	0-17	18-23	42	24	6
Economics	0-28	29-37	118	38-48	15
English	0-12	13-18	344	19-24	58
French	0-24	25-29	24	30-32	5
Geography	0-13	14-18	162	19-24	17
German	0-22	23-29	12	30-32	2
Graphics	0-13	14-19	36	20-24	6
History	0-24	25-37	143	38-48	17
Japanese	0-21	22-28	19	29-32	4
Latin	0-25	26-29	4	30-31	1
Mathematics with Calculus	0-19	20-32	199	33-40	29
Media Studies	0-16	17-24	74	25-32	8
Music Studies	0-19	20-23	23	24	5
Physical Education	0-12	13-18	90	19-24	1
Physics	0-22	23-32	163	33-48	21
Science	0-29	30-38	18	39-48	3
Spanish	0-20	21-29	7	30-32	1
Statistics and Modelling	0-25	26-38	349	39-48	46
Te Reo Māori	0-33	34-44	11	45-48	2
Te Reo Rangitira	0-38	39-43	5	44-48	1
Technology	0-13	14-18	22	19-24	5
Visual Arts	0-13	14-19	162	20-24	25