King’s College student, Bevan Lye of Auckland, topped the national scholarship list with A+ grades in Classical Studies, English, French, German and History.

Bevan Lye is pictured with the Minister of Education, the Hon John Mallard, and Mr Graham Seatter, Lion Nathan's Corporate Affairs Director.
His headmaster, John Taylor, characterises him as a genuine scholar: "He’s a delight to teach and picks up subjects with incredible alacrity. Bevan began Classical Studies in Term 2 of this year, and was first in NZEST in this subject and in English," comments John Taylor. "It is a great victory for the study of the humanities as traditionally the top place-getters have been in science and maths. Bevan is a champion debater, has a much appreciated, subtle sense of humour and certainly has taken a full part in the life of his house and the school during his time at King’s."
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Bevan’s particular field of interest is medieval history, and his dream is to study it at Cambridge. He has enrolled for a BA/ LLB at Auckland University this year, prepared for more of the hard work that earned him such exceptional marks.


The Top Scholars of 2000 Meet the Minister of Education at Parliament Bevan Lye, of King’s College, who came first, is on the Minister’s left. Middle row left to right: Dominic Lo, Scots College, Aaron Armour, Tawa College, Leo Sheck, Auckland Grammar School, Ronald Begg, Burnside High School.
Back row left to right: David Delamore, Auckland Grammar School, David Broome, Rosmini College, Luke Henry, Auckland Grammar School, Matthew Peek, Auckland Grammar School.		 The Minister of Education, the Hon Trevor Mallard is pictured with the top NZEST scholars of 2000 on Parliament Building steps, following the national award ceremony held on December 18 last year.

These students (apart from the Wellington based ones) are flown courtesy of Air New Zealand to the national award ceremony where the Minister of Education presents their scholarship awards.

To gain a scholarship, a student has to sit a minimum of 4, but normally 5 subjects. Marks in each subject are awarded grades which generate scholarship points which are totalled, and the top 70 scholars receive scholarship funding. Bevan Lye received 5 A+ grades and scored a maximum of 45 scholarship points - 31 points was the cut-off for scholarship awards in 2000.