Qualifications and standards

2013 Top Scholarship Awards winners

NZQA celebrated the success of the highest-achieving New Zealand Scholarship students at the annual Top Scholar Awards Ceremony hosted at Parliament.

The awards recognised the elite students who make up the 2013 Premier Award and Top Subject Scholarship Award winners.

Prime Minister's Award for Academic Excellence

The recipient of the 2013 award was announced by the Prime Minister, John Key, at Parliament – former Auckland Grammar School student, Byung-Cheol Cho.

Byung Cheol Cho PM award

Winner of the 2013 Prime Minister's Award, Byung-Cheol Cho with the Prime Minister, John Key.

Premier Scholarship Award winners

Byung-Cheol Cho* Auckland Grammar School	Phoebe Helena Marianne Clifford St Cuthbert's College
Jack Gordon Le Fevre Garden Wellington College	Daniel William Hughes Aquinas College
Fang Zhou Jiang Rangitoto College	Rahul Makam King's College
Samuel McCabe* Hamilton Boys' High School	Matthew Adam Keevy Standley Wanganui High School
Keniel Yao Macleans College	Frank Zhou* Macleans College

*Also a Top Subject Scholarship Award winner

Top Subject Scholarship Award winners

Accounting	Hannah Ziyu Yang Mount Roskill Grammar School
Agricultural and Horticultural Science	Thomas Gary Traill St Andrew's College
Art History	Libby Mary Whittaker Carmel College
Biology	Oliver Hugh Coleman Nelson College
Calculus	Fergus Patrick Thow O'Leary Kings' High School
Chemistry	Frank Zhou Macleans College
Chinese	Ziyan Liu Epsom Girls' Grammar School
Classical Studies	James Hilton Kenrick Auckland Grammar School
Dance	Xavier Muao Breed Rutherford College
Design	Zoe Rebekah McNicholas Marist College
Design and Visual Communications	Dustin David Parkinson Long Bay College
Drama	Keegan Dillon Bragg St Andrew's College
Earth and Space Science	Byung-Cheol Cho Auckland Grammar School
Economics	Hamish Dick St John's College (Hamilton)
English	Seamus Oliver Barnett Palmerston North Boys' High School
French	Alexis Mergan Avondale College
Geography	Clara Margaret Leathart Todd Christchurch Girls' High School
German	Laura Witthoeft Avondale College
History	Sharan Kaur Randhawa Pakuranga College
Japanese	Tomone Hirasawa Burnside High School
Latin	Alan Ansell New Plymouth Boys' High School
Media Studies	Xiang Meng Westlake Boys' High School
Music	Benjamin James Murray St Andrew's College
Painting	Jenny Elizabeth Palmer Takapuna Grammar School
Photography	Estelle Jane Dippie St Hilda's Collegiate School
Physical Education	Emma Mary Dwight Otumoetai College
Physics	Samuel McCabe Hamilton Boys' High School
Printmaking	Natalie Reason New Plymouth Girls' High School
Samoan	Sabrina Wright Mangere College
Sculpture	Mika Helena Zollner Wellington East Girls' College
Spanish	Marissa Fiona Le Lec Mount Aspiring College
Statistics	Grace Claire Thrupp Buckland Hillcrest High School
Te Reo Māori	Ngapera Manaakitanga Te Aaka Sakura Aperahama St Joseph's Māori Girls' College
Te Reo Rangatira	Kahui Papuni-Iles Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Te Waiū o Ngāti Porou
Technology	Sohail Arif Abdulla Mount Roskill Grammar School