Overall New Zealand Scholarship results 2022

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2022 New Zealand Scholarship Monetary Awards

Award 2022 Awardees attained No of Students

Premier Awards

$10,000 each year for three years (for the very top 7-12 students) as long as they maintain at least a "B" grade average in tertiary studies

A minimum of four Scholarships at “Outstanding” level, or three Scholarships at “Outstanding” level with four additional Scholarships.

NB: The number of recipients for this award is restricted and achieving the minimum requirement will not guarantee an award.

 11

Outstanding Scholar Awards

$5,000 each year for three years (for the top 40–60 students) as long as they maintain at least a "B" grade average in tertiary studies

A minimum of three Scholarships with two at “Outstanding” level, or at least five Scholarships with one at “Outstanding” level, or at least four Scholarships with one at “Outstanding” level and a top two performance in at least one subject.

NB: The number of recipients for this award is restricted and achieving the minimum requirement will not guarantee an award.

 51

Top Subject Scholar Awards

$2,000 each year for three years as long as students maintain at least  a "B" grade in tertiary studies

Top of Subject.

 35

Scholarship Award

$2,000 each year for three years as long as students maintain at least a "B" grade average in tertiary studies

Scholarship in three or more subjects OR Outstanding Scholarship in two subjects (with no third subject) in the same year.

217

Single Subject Awards

A "one-off" award of $500 per subject (maximum payment is $1,000)

Scholarships in one or two subjects.

1713 

* In 2022, the 36 Top Subject Scholarship awards were achieved by 35 students. Of these 35 students, 19 received Top Subject monetary awards and the other 16 received awards in other categories. However, candidates receiving a Top Subject Scholar Award, who also achieve Scholarship in another subject, receive the Top Subject Award and, in addition, a maximum of one $500 Single-Subject Award.

New Zealand Scholarship awards by subject - provisional

Scholarship Subject Level 3 Cohort % Level 3 Cohort Awarded Scholarship (including Outstanding) Scholarship (excluding Outstanding) Outstanding
Accounting 1884 2.65 44 6
Agriculture and Horticulture 562 3.02 15 2
Art History 728 3.02 20 2
Biology 9605 3.01 261 28
Calculus 9297 3.01 250 30
Chemistry 8503 2.34 171 28
Chinese 740 3.24 22 2
Classical Studies 2645 3.25 78 8
Dance 893 2.24 17 3
Design 2433 3.04 67 7
Design and Visual Communication 1364 3.08 39 3
Drama 1713 2.98 46 5
Earth and Space Science 868 3 23 3
Economics 2796 3.11 79 8
English 14951 2.9 388 46
French 386 3.11 11 1
Geography 4001 2.9 106 10
German 128 4.69 5 1
Health and Physical Education 4735 1.92 77 14
History 5974 2.78 150 16
Japanese 493 3.04 13 2
Latin 19 21.05 3 1
Media Studies 2551 2.98 70 6
Music 1470 2.93 39 4
Painting 3072 2.99 83 9
Photography 2950 3.02 80 9
Physics 8526 2.76 207 28
Printmaking 428 3.04 12 1
Religious Studies 2670 2.88 69 8
Samoan 285 3.16 8 1
Sculpture 214 2.8 5 1
Spanish 385 2.86 10 1
Statistics 9536 3.05 263 28
Te Reo Maori 958 3.03 26 3
Te Reo Rangatira 183 3.28 5 1
Technology 3710 1.59 50 9

The Technical Overview Group Assessment applies discretion in the setting of cut scores: The 3 percent criterion is applied with discretion of plus or minus 5 students. Cut scores are set such that all students at or above the cut score have demonstrated performance at the Scholarship standard.

*Note: There are reasons why the percentage of the Level 3 cohort achieving Scholarship is significantly higher for Latin than for other subjects:

  • Latin has a very small Level 3 cohort. The large proportion of the cohort awarded Scholarship reflects this.
  • Up to five candidates in addition to 3% of the Level 3 cohort can receive Scholarship in each subject. Because Latin is undertaken by a very small number of candidates and has a very small Level 3 cohort, this discretionary flexibility resulted in a high percentage of the Level 3 cohort receiving awards.

New Zealand Scholarship cut scores

The following table shows the range of scores for each subject. (The number of candidates is provisional, subject to reviews and reconsiderations.)

Scholarship Subject Scholarship Score Range Scholarship No. of Candidates Outstanding Scholarship Score Range Outstanding No. of Candidates
Accounting 17-23 44 24-32 6
Agriculture and Horticulture 14-19 15 20-24 2
Art History 13-18 20 19-24 2
Biology 13-18 261 19-24 28
Calculus 21-32 250 33-40 30
Chemistry 17-24 171 25-32 28
Chinese 17-20 22 21-24 2
Classical Studies 14-18 78 19-24 8
Dance 13-20 17 21-24 3
Design 13-19 67 20-24 7
Design and Visual Communication 13-18 39 19-24 3
Drama 16-20 46 21-24 5
Earth and Space Science 13-19 23 20-24 3
Economics 13-18 79 19-24 8
English 13-20 388 21-24 46
French 14-22 11 23-24 1
Geography 14-18 106 19-24 10
German 17-23 5 24-24 1
Health and Physical Education 13-18 77 19-24 14
History 13-18 150 19-24 16
Japanese 16-22 13 23-24 2
Latin 25-30 3 31-32 1
Media Studies 13-18 70 19-24 6
Music 17-20 39 21-24 4
Painting 14-19 83 20-24 9
Photography 13-19 80 20-24 9
Physics 17-25 207 26-32 28
Printmaking 13-21 12 22-24 1
Religious Studies 13-18 69 19-24 8
Samoan 16-20 8 21-24 1
Sculpture 18-21 5 22-24 1
Spanish 14-20 10 21-24 1
Statistics 20-26 263 27-32 28
Te Reo Maori 18-21 26 22-24 3
Te Reo Rangatira 19-20 5 21-24 1
Technology 13-18 50 19-24 9
 
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