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| Thread ID: 63234 | 2005-11-02 13:11:00 | NZ Scholarship changes? | roddy_boy (4115) | PC World Chat |
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| 401411 | 2005-11-02 13:11:00 | Hi all, I am just wondering if there are any students here (or parents of students), who are thinking of sitting the NZ Scholarships this year, on top of NCEA exams? I sat NCEA Level 3 (freaking NCEA), and was unfortunate enough to be a guniea pig for the whole 3 levels plus scholarship. I sat scholarship last year, failed 3, managed to pass one. Anyways the whole thing was a bit of a balls up on the Governments behalf, as was publicised quite thouroughly. I ended up getting quite involved in the whole issue. So I was wondering, were our efforts worthwhile? Has any progress been made with the format of Scholarship? I looked on the website, but it wasn't very informative of any changes that were made as a result of the review. Would ask me old school how it's getting along, but had a bit of a falling out with them sticking up for NCEA over the whole issue. Useless principals. Looking forward to some good feedback. roddy |
roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 401412 | 2005-11-02 18:47:00 | There are much clearer guidelines which tell teachers and students exactly what's going on, how the exam is going to be marked, and how scholarships will be awarded. I think that it's the top 3% of students sitting NCEA Level 3, who also do scholarship, who are awarded a scholarship. Plus, with all the media scrutiny this year, surely they would have double and triple checked everything (fingers crossed). Though in saying that, for the maths subjects, they spent a lot of time developing and training teachers on the new marking scheme using a ranking basis, only to change back to using "marks" in the last week or so. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 401413 | 2005-11-03 02:36:00 | I am planning to take scholarship next year for my sciences and maths with calculus. How much do they award you for every scholarship that you have gained? Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 401414 | 2005-11-03 02:52:00 | $500 per subject, or if you get 3 or more subjects, you get $3000. | somebody (208) | ||
| 401415 | 2005-11-03 03:13:00 | $500 per subject, or if you get 3 or more subjects, you get $3000. Yeah that was the part that annoyed me. Got nothing for getting scholarship stats last year. And the higher awards carry on for a few years, as long as your doing tertiary study and keep at least a B avg. The most annoying thing about NCEA for me, money wise, is that there is no equivalent of an A or B Bursary. With the old system, if you got 250 or 300 marks in your top 5 subjects, you got an A or B Bursary, and got money annually. No equivalent in NCEA. |
roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 401416 | 2005-11-03 06:04:00 | urgh scholarship calc last year was horrible, so was physics. I found scholarship a complete waste of 9 hours :) that would've been drinking time! | DangerousDave (697) | ||
| 401417 | 2005-11-03 06:46:00 | Yeah I'll second that. I fully didnt realise how hard physics and chem were gonna be. Didn't even turn up for calc. :lol: | roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 401418 | 2005-11-03 06:56:00 | I am planning to take scholarship next year for my sciences and maths with calculus. How much do they award you for every scholarship that you have gained? Cheers :) will you be able to handle the maths with calc though? if you cant get atleast a merit+ or an excellence, dont bother with the scholarship. |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 401419 | 2005-11-03 08:43:00 | will you be able to handle the maths with calc though? if you cant get atleast a merit+ or an excellence, dont bother with the scholarship. I'm willing to say straight excellences in physics and maths. I got both but it didn't help me pass schol :( |
DangerousDave (697) | ||
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