Academic News

NZQA factsheets

NZQA has produced a series of new factsheets about NCEA which are designed to be printed off individually or viewed online. The factsheets are:

• Factsheet 1: What is NCEA?
• Factsheet 2: NCEA and recognising excellence
• Factsheet 3: NCEA – choosing a course or subjects at school
• Factsheet 4: NCEA – internal and external assessment
• Factsheet 5: NCEA and University Entrance
• Factsheet 6: How NCEA results are recognised overseas.

The six factsheets are available here.

Examination Period for 2018

These dates have been published in this circular.

NELSON COLLEGE ACADEMIC COLOURS AWARDED 2018

 2017 NCEA RESULTS

 Level 1 

Ben Baker, Todd Ballance, Sidney Barron, Callum Campbell, James Clifford, Charlie Danson, Philippe de Maupeou, Emile Dyson, Daniel E Silva, Ollie Franklin, William Fu-Allen, Harry Gardner, Luke Garside, Josh Greer, Fergus Hughes, Joshua Hurst, Zach Langbridge, Jackson Loftus, Matthew Mayer, Jack McDonald-Hill, Joshua Mead, Burty Meffan, Akash Pai, Nicholas Paulin, Sam Preston, Louis Rowe, Logan Schokking, Hamish Smith, Logan Smith, Tom Thornalley, Luc Wiegand, Connor Wilkins, Hugo Allais, Ben Allan, Robbie Anderson, James Barron, Nash Biggs, Callum Bryant, Josh Buckley, Forrest Clarke, Genesis Clayton, Daiki De Couto, William Douglas, Jake Edridge, Spike Elliott-Jones, Jarod Fisher, Alec Fox, Matthew Fox, Cody Gelling, Matthew Grimes, Louie Hadfield, Louie Hampton, Konan Hey, Kevin Jung, Richard Li, Jason Liang, Daniel Liu, Callum Mason, Nick Matthews, Jack McFadden, Callum McNab, Sam Mead, Jack Monk, Rod Morrison, Rick Muir, Jakob Neal, Max Patterson, Harry Perkins, Owain Portsmouth, Jem Postance, Hamish Read, Scott Robertson, Josh Simpson, Benjamin Stanley, Jonathan Subritzky, Pakham Tlumang, Louis Walker, Ray Winterton, Joseph Young, Peter Zhang, David Zohrab

Level 2 

Shashank Bhagwani, Sam Christian, Josh Cowles, Harris Devon, Liam Domett-Potts, Daniel Endersby, Andrew Franklet, Yuichiro Fukushima, Samuel Gastrell, Sam Halsey, David Jiang, Noah Levy, Alfie Mansfield, Matai McGuinniety, Max Meffan, Albie Murray, Fergus Murray, Jordan Newsome, Thomas Peterson, Latai Rasmussen, Jacob Read, Harrison Sands, Aeran Tapnio, Daniel Taylor, Ryan Thompson, Jacob Thornton, Rohan Trill, Cameron Vining, Zac Waterman-Thomas, Thomas Zohrab

Academic Colours Criteria

The award of academic colours is our most pretigious recognition of academic excellence for NCEA and is awarded to current Year 12 and Year 13 students.

Level One Academic Colours:

• Awarded if a student gains an endorsed Excellence certificate in their first full year of NCEA or
• A student gains an endorsed Merit certificate at Level Two NCEA

Level Two Academic Colours:

• Awarded if a student gains an endorsed Excellence certificate at Level Two NCEA

Nelson College continues to produce academic results which place the College at the forefront of Boys educators in NZ.

With a curriculum which caters for the needs of all boys we are able to celebrate excellence at NCEA, Scholarship and in the vocational sector.

For more information on the NCEA achievement standards and assessment system please visit the New Zealand Qualifications Authority website. See External exam timetable here.