Macleans College Academic Achievements 2022

Posted on March 15, 2023

Macleans College continues to enhance its reputation as one of the top academic high schools in New Zealand.

Each year a growing number of students enter select university programmes around the world. The school’s focus on academic rigour, a knowledge-rich curriculum and a structured pedagogy provide students with optimum learning conditions.

The academic programme is supported by a caring whānau house system and an extensive extra-curricular programme.

2022 Cambridge Assessment International Examination Results

Top in the World

  • Ziqi Liu
    A Level Computer Science

Top in New Zealand

  • Alex Ly
    AS Computer Science

2022 NZQA Scholarship Results

  • Macleans College students achieved 99 Scholarships.
  • Two Macleans College students achieved an Outstanding Scholar Award ($15,000).
  • Ten students achieved three or more Scholarships ($6,000).

2022 Dux

The Dux prize for 2022 is awarded to the Macleans College student who achieved the highest grades in the annual NZQA Scholarship examinations.

The Dux of Macleans College received the Allen McDonald Scholarship. This scholarship was established by the Macleans College Parent Teacher Association in recognition of the contribution of Allen McDonald, the second Principal of Macleans College, particularly with regard to the school’s scholastic achievement. The scholarship is worth $2,000.

The Macleans College Dux of 2022 and recipient of the Allen McDonald Scholarship is awarded to William Gao.

William achieved an Outstanding Scholar Award with Outstanding Scholarship in Physics and Earth & Space Science, and Scholarship in Chemistry, Statistics and Calculus.

He is a CAIE Top Achiever with a minimum of 2 A* Grades at A Level with A* Grades in Computer Science and English Literature and an A Grade at A Level in Further Mathematics.

In 2021 William’s achievements included 3 A* Grades at A Level in Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics, an A Grade in AS English Literature and a Cambridge High Achievement Award in AS Physics. He also achieved Scholarship with an Outstanding Scholarship in Physics and Scholarship in Calculus, Chemistry and Statistics.

In his time at the College William’s extra-curricular included Fencing, Clarinet in the Concert and Symphonic Bands, the Coding Club, NZ Informatics Olympiad training camps, NZ Chemistry Olympiad training camps, he placed third in NZPMC and was a student librarian. Other involvement included the Upham Big House Choir, Amnesty International, UN Youth Civics Education Club, NZ Programme Contests, NZ Engineering and Science Competitions and the NZ Secondary Schools Case Competition.

2022 Proxime Accessit

The Proxime Accessit for 2022 is awarded to the Macleans College student who achieved the second highest grades in the annual NZQA Scholarship examinations.

The Macleans College Proxime Accessit of 2022 is awarded to Allan Han.

Allan achieved Outstanding Scholarship in Chemistry and Scholarship in Biology, Earth and Space Science, Agriculture and Horticulture, Statistics, Calculus, and Health and Physical Education.

Allan Han also achieved the following results in his Cambridge examinations:

An A* Grade in A Level Chemistry and Mathematics, an A Grade in A Level Biology, and an A Grade in AS Physics and English Literature.

As a Year 11 student Allan achieved an A Grade in AS Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics.

In extra-curricular Allan is currently involved with the Senior Boys Volleyball and is a school prefect.

In 2022 he was a member of the World Scholars Cup Club, Volleyball Senior C Boys, Unicef group, UN Youth Civics Education Club, and a member of the Chamber Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra and Concert Band. Allan was also a member of the Premier Chess, Debating Premier Advanced and Badminton A Grade teams. Allan was a Peer Support Leader and completed his Duke of Edinburgh Silver and is currently working towards his Gold.

Scholars Awards

The Scholars’ Awards recognise those students who achieved at the highest level of the NZQA, CAIE and NCEA external examinations in 2022.

NZQA Scholarship results

Outstanding Scholar Award

  • Allan Han
  • William Gao

Scholarship Award

Students who gained Scholarship in three or more subjects, including an Outstanding

  • James Hui
  • Wei Tian Teo

Students who gained Scholarship in three or more subjects

  • Tian Jin
  • Jingyi Li
  • Kevin Lin
  • Ibrahim Waheed
  • Yunwen Xu
  • Ruiying Ye
  • Jaeung Yun
  • Regina Yun

Students who gained Outstanding in two Scholarship Subjects

  • Ziqi Liu

Students who gained one or two Scholarships

Two Scholarships:

  • Eric Lee
  • Janice Liu
  • Elsa Ly
  • Ruth Xu
  • Hillary-Jia Zhong

One Scholarship:

  • Lise Becker
  • Alexandra Buchanan
  • Jonathan Cao
  • Kuan Chang
  • Li Hong Chen
  • Nacy Chen
  • Wai Nok Cheng
  • Eric Deng
  • Hannah Dunk
  • Billie-Jean Hartnoll
  • Corina Huang
  • Joshua Kingdon
  • Lokesh Kumar
  • Valerie Lau
  • Joshua Leevers
  • Sue Jynn Leong
  • Junyou Li
  • Lanxin Liang
  • Jireh Lin
  • Olivia Lin
  • Matthew Loh
  • Alex Ly
  • Zara Nicholson
  • Sean O’Loughlin
  • Daniel Park
  • Puxin Qin
  • Emily Ready
  • Alexandra Rikys
  • Man Yae Shih
  • Thandiswa Siso
  • Shafquat Tabeeb
  • Hsuan-Tse Teng
  • Arabella Van Der Maas
  • Ruiwen Wang
  • Nancy Wu
  • Joshua Yee
  • Lorna Zhang
  • Bryan Zhou

2022 NCEA Outstanding Performance

NCEA Year 12 Top Achiever Award 2022

Students who achieved Level 2 Endorsed with Excellence (with a minimum of 46 credits at Excellence level)

  • Minuki Anthony
  • Zoe Barrett
  • Christina Bi
  • Lucy Blyth
  • Eve Boermans
  • Abigail Bolton
  • Saffron Brookes
  • Alexandra Buchanan
  • Romeo Burnett
  • Zoe Chambers
  • Alex Chen
  • Nathaniel Craig
  • Anna Dupper
  • Kade Fry
  • Jessica Holmes
  • Diya Kaushal
  • Ha Yune Kim
  • Mamta Kumari
  • Kiera Ledgerwood
  • Danna Liu
  • Meagan Maritz
  • Sophia Nimmo
  • Niccolo Nustrini
  • Genevieve Oliver
  • Hannah Ouyang
  • Hao-Wun Pan
  • Lilu Shang
  • Jeandre Van Greuning
  • Jenny Xu
  • Yuqing Ye
  • Lianlian Zhang

NCEA Year 13 Top Achiever Award 2022

Students who achieved Level 3 Endorsed with Excellence (with a minimum of 46 credits at Excellence level)

  • Nathan Anderson
  • Thea Badhniwalla
  • Josh Buddhdev
  • Alexa Carter
  • Sammie Chamberlain
  • Jiayi Chen
  • Li Hong Chen
  • Wai Nok Cheng
  • Mahi Desai
  • Jade Firth
  • Georgia Hewetson
  • Corina Huang
  • Livleen Kaur
  • Lauren Khoo
  • Nayoung Ko
  • Angelina Kung
  • Chanel Lai
  • Jiaying Li
  • Janice Liu
  • Elsa Ly
  • Skyla MacDonald
  • Kara MacGillivray
  • Georgia Mackey
  • Logan Marshall
  • Alexandra Moore
  • Zhanyi Peng
  • Grace Pickering
  • Caitlyn Pokorny
  • Emily Ready
  • Alexandra Rikys
  • Shellby-Sage Rousseau
  • Jordan Rowe
  • Ishaan Silva
  • Levi Smyth
  • Rico Spiller
  • Haojing Su
  • Aimee Thompson
  • Nicholas Tweedale
  • Arabella Van Der Maas
  • Xin Yi Wang
  • Kayla Winiata
  • Nancy Wu
  • Yuhan Yang
  • Rachel Yu
  • Yang Zhao

2022 CAIE Outstanding Performance

CAIE Top Achiever 2022

Year 11 students who achieved 2 or 3 A Grades in AS

  • Andrew Chen
  • Naomi Cheng
  • Nathanael Cheng
  • Tegh Singh Dhanjal
  • Haotian Guan
  • George Guo
  • Jiachen Hu
  • Harish Kumar
  • Nicole Lai
  • Andrew Lin
  • James Ling
  • Tianzexi Liu
  • Arshia Lotfi
  • Nicole Reardon
  • Joseph Tan
  • Yixue Wang
  • Andy Xiong
  • Tim Yang
  • Emily Yin
  • Ivan Yun
  • Raymond Zhang
  • Taoran Zhang
  • Quinn Zhong
  • Kaiwen Zhou
  • Bruce Zou

Students who achieved an A Grade in 4 subjects at AS Level

  • Jessica Kang
  • Arthur Zheng

Students who achieved an A Grade in 4 subjects or more at AS and A Level

  • Dante Anderson
  • Eric Deng
  • Jie Xin Huang
  • Mandy Jing
  • Gina Kim
  • Valerie Lau
  • Wesley Law
  • Joshua Leevers
  • Sue Wen Li
  • Yiwen Liang
  • Pei-Hsun Lin
  • Zixuan Lin
  • Yilin Liu
  • Binuri Marasinghe
  • Linda Na
  • So Young Park
  • Hana Rose
  • Annahat Sandhu
  • Ishtar Sandhu
  • Safquat Tabeeb
  • Renyan Tang
  • Phoebe Yang
  • Joshua Yee

Students who achieved a minimum of 2 A* Grades at A Level

  • Jonathan Cao
  • Yuhan Cao
  • Kuan Chang
  • Stephanie Chong
  • Ian Chou
  • Henry Gao
  • William Gao
  • Janet Gu
  • Rong Guo
  • Allan Han
  • James Hui
  • Vrinda Kannan
  • Antoniy Kralev
  • Lokesh Kumar
  • Eric Lee
  • Ga Yeon Lee
  • Jingyi Li
  • Junyou Li
  • Yifeng Li
  • Jireh Lin
  • Kevin Lin
  • Olivia Lin
  • Ziqi Liu
  • Matthew Loh
  • Alex Ly
  • Coco Ma
  • Andrew Mok
  • Luyao Ni
  • Shaoxuan Niu
  • Daniel Park
  • Oshan Premkumar
  • Jia Qi Sun
  • Hsuan-Tse Teng
  • Wei Tian Teo
  • Lara Teodorescu
  • Ibrahim Waheed
  • Amy Xiong
  • Yunwen Xu
  • Ruiying Ye
  • Bruce Zhang
  • Hillary Zhong
  • Bryan Zhou

Students who achieved an A Grade in four or more subjects at A Level

  • Tian Jin
  • Ruth Xu
  • Tingwen Yan
  • Regina Yun

Students who achieved an A* Grade in four or more subjects at A Level

  • Jaeyung Yun