Scholars' Assembly 2021

The annual Scholars’ Assembly was held at Macleans College on Friday 26 March.

The assembly recognised students who had achieved at the highest level in the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA), the Cambridge Assessment International Examinations (CAIE) and the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) Scholarship Examinations for 2020.

In the 2020 Scholarship examinations one student achieved a Premier Scholar Award, and three students achieved an Outstanding Scholar Award. There were 120 individual Scholarships gained, including 16 at Outstanding level and one student achieved First in Subject.

One student gained High Achievement, eight achieved Top in New Zealand and one gained Top in the World awards in the Cambridge Assessment International Examinations.

MCert 2020 Outstanding Performance

Year 11 MCert Top Achiever Award 2020

Students who achieved 4 or more A Grades in MCert or AS

NCEA 2020 Outstanding Performance

NCEA Year 12 Top Achiever Award 2020

Students who achieved Level 2 Endorsed with Excellence (with a minimum of 50 credits at Excellence level)

NCEA Year 13 Top Achiever Award 2020

Students who achieved Level 3 Endorsed with Excellence (with a minimum of 50 credits at Excellence level)

CAIE 2020 Outstanding Performance

CAIE Top Achiever Award 2020

Year 11 students who achieved 2 A Grades at AS

CAIE Top Achiever Award 2020

Year 11 students who achieved 3 A Grades at AS

CAIE Top Achiever Award 2020

Year 11 students who achieved 4 or more A Grades at AS

CAIE Top Achiever Award 2020

Year 12 and 13 students who achieved an A Grade in 4 or more subjects at AS

CAIE Top Achiever Award 2020

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

CAIE Top Achiever Award 2020

Students who achieved an A Grade in 5 or more at AS and A Level

CAIE Top Achiever Award 2020

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

CAIE Top Achiever Award 2020

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

NZQA Scholarship 2020

Students who gained Outstanding in a Scholarship Subject

James Gong
Outstanding Scholarship in Physics and Scholarship in Calculus and CAIE Top Achievers Award with a minimum of 2A* Grades at A Level

Kotaro Ishii
Outstanding Scholarship in Japanese and NCEA Year 13 Top Achiever Award achieving Level 3 endorsed with excellence with a minimum of 50 excellence credits at Excellence level

Louis Lee
Outstanding Scholarship in Physics and Scholarship in Calculus and CAIE Top Achievers Award with a minimum of 2A* Grades at A Level

Students who gained Scholarship in three or more subjects.

Marcus Ambler
Scholarship in Calculus, Physics and Statistics and CAIE Top Achievers Award with a minimum of 2A* Grades at A Level

Darsh Chaudhari
Scholarship in Calculus, Chemistry, Physics and Statistics and CAIE Top Achievers Award with a minimum of 2A* Grades at A Level

Kelvin Gu
Scholarship in Chemistry, Economics and Statistics and CAIE Top Achievers Award with a minimum of 2 A* Grades at A Level

Godakandage Lelwala
Scholarship in Biology, Media Studies, Physics and Statistics and CAIE Top Achievers Award with a minimum of 2A* Grades at A Level

Wayne Lu
Outstanding Scholarship in Calculus and Scholarship in Physics and Statistics and CAIE Top Achievers Award with a minimum of 2A* Grades at A Level

Angela Yee
Scholarship in English, History and Statistics and CAIE Top Achievers Award with a minimum of 2A* Grades at A Level

Janet Yu
Scholarship in Chemistry, Physics and Statistics and CAIE Top Achievers Award with a minimum of 2A* Grades at A Level

Yunge Yu
Outstanding Scholarship in Physics, and Scholarship in Calculus, Chemistry and Statistics and CAIE Top Achievers Award with a minimum of 2A* Grades at A Level

Jasmine Zhang
Outstanding Scholarship in Economics, and Scholarship in Chemistry, Physics and Statistics and CAIE Top Achievers Award with a minimum of 2A* Grades at A Level

CAIE Top Achievement Award 2020

Students who placed First in New Zealand in CAIE in 2020 in subjects where there were less than 50 candidates entered nationally

Lisa Sandbrook
CAIE High Achievement in Japanese Language and CAIE Top Achiever Award with a minimum of 2 A* Grades at A Level

CAIE Top in New Zealand 2020

Students who placed First in New Zealand in CAIE

Vivian Chan
Top In New Zealand – A Level Accounting, NZQA Scholarship Award and CAIE Top Achiever Award with a minimum of 2A* Grades at A Level

Maggie Chen
Top in New Zealand – AS Digital Media & Design

Nancy Chen
Top in New Zealand – AS Mathematics 1st= and CAIE Top Achiever Award with 3 A Grades in AS in Year 11

Oliver Dai
Top in New Zealand – A Level Mathematics, and CAIE Top Achiever Award with a minimum of 2 A* Grades at A Level

Michael He
Top in New Zealand – A Level Computer Science and CAIE Top Achiever Award with a minimum of 2 A* Grades at A Level

Rick Wang
Top in New Zealand - AS Mathematics 1st= and CAIE Top Achiever Award with 4 or more A Grades in AS in Year 11

Maggie Xian
Top in New Zealand – AS Art & Design

Angela Yang
Top in New Zealand – A Level Chinese

CAIE Top in the World 2020

Students who placed First in the World in CAIE

Joanne Gee - AS Design & Technology

NZQA Outstanding Scholar Award 2020

For candidates placed in the top 20-40. The minimum requirement to be considered for this award is three Scholarships with at least two at “Outstanding” level, or more than three Scholarships with at least one at “Outstanding”. The number of recipients for this award is restricted and achieving the minimum requirement will not guarantee an award.

$5,000 each year for three years as long as candidates maintain a ‘B’ grade average in tertiary study.

Daniel Ahn
Outstanding Scholarship in Chemistry and Scholarship in Biology, Calculus, History, Physics and Statistics and CAIE Top Achiever Award with a minimum of 2A* Grades at A Level

Judy Fong
Outstanding Scholarship in English (Top in subject) and History, and Scholarship in Classical Studies and CAIE Top Achiever Award with 5 A Grades at AS and A Level

Proxime Accessit (Runner Up to the Dux) 2020

This award is presented to Rick Han.

Rick achieved an NZQA Outstanding Scholars Award in 2020. This Award is for candidates who placed in the top 20-40, in New Zealand. The minimum requirement to be considered for this award is three Scholarships with at least two at “Outstanding” level, or more than three Scholarships with at least one at “Outstanding”. The number of recipients for this award is restricted and achieving the minimum requirement will not guarantee an award.

Students who achieve this Award receive a payment of $5,000 each year for three years as long as candidates maintain a ‘B’ grade average in tertiary study.

Rick achieved Outstanding Scholarship in Calculus, Physics and Statistics, and Scholarship in Chemistry and Geography.

Also, a CAIE Top Achiever with a minimum of 2 A* Grades at A Level.

Dux of Macleans College 2020

The Dux prize for 2020 is awarded to the Macleans student who achieved the highest grades in the annual NZQA Scholarship examinations.

The Dux of Macleans College receives 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 $1,000.00.

The Macleans College Dux of 2020 and recipient of the Allen McDonald Scholarship is awarded to Angela Yang.

Angela was awarded an NZQA Premier Scholarship in 2020. Premier Scholarships are awarded to the very top 5 to 10 candidates in New Zealand. The minimum requirement to be considered for this award is at least three Scholarships at “Outstanding” Level. The number of recipients for this award is restricted and achieving the minimum requirement will not guarantee an award.

Premier Scholars receive $10,000 each year for three years as long as they maintain at least a ‘B’ grade average in tertiary study.

Angela achieved Outstanding Scholarship in Chemistry, Chinese, Physics and Statistics, and Scholarship in Calculus and Spanish.

She also achieved CAIE top in New Zealand A Level Chinese.

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