Scholarship Scheme

Scholarship Scheme (2024-2025)
(awarded in the academic year 2025-2026)

Eligibility Criteria

1.1.	Academic Scholarship
	All students who are enrolled at St. Paul's Convent School are eligible to receive academic scholarships. No application but acceptance of scholarship is required.
1.2.	Non-academic Scholarship
	Students who have excellent performance in non-academic areas are eligible for non-academic scholarships. Nominations from teachers-in-charge of functional / ECA teams are welcome.

Application Procedures

2.1.

Academic Scholarship

No application is needed for academic scholarship. The school scholarship team will
vet all students based on their academic performance to allocate scholarships.

2.2.

Non-academic Scholarship

2.2.1.	Teachers-in-charge of functional / ECA teams can nominate students to the school scholarship team by providing evidence on students' outstanding achievement in various areas.
2.2.2.	Nominees have to submit their Student Portfolio including certificates, essays, photographs and / or artifacts, reference letters or letter of recommendation to the school scholarship team for assessment.

Method of Assessment

3.1.

Academic Scholarship

3.1.1.

For F.1 students

For P.6 promoted to F.1 students:
Scholarships are allocated based on their SPA rank and results in the Pre-secondary One Hong Kong Attainment Test.

The rules for allocating scholarships are summarized as below:

SPA rank:

Rank	Scholarship
1 - 30	75%
31 - 50	25%

Pre-Secondary One Hong Kong Attainment Test rank:

Rank	Scholarship
1 - 18	25%
19 - 30	10%

For students from SPCS primary section:

Scholarships are allocated mainly based on the students’ overall Form Rank in P.5 and P.6 examinations. Their performances in the Pre-Secondary One Hong Kong Attainment Test will also be taken into account.

The rules for allocating scholarships are summarized as below:

Overall Form Rank	Scholarship
1 - 15	75%
16 - 25	25%

Pre-Secondary One Hong Kong Attainment Test rank:

Rank	Scholarship
1 - 18	25%
19 - 30	10%

3.1.2.

For F.1 promoted to F.2 / F.2 promoted to F.3 students:

Scholarships are allocated based on students' class rank and form rank in the final examinations. The rules are summarized below:

Rank	Scholarship
Form Rank: 1 – 30	50%
Class Rank: 1 – 3	50%

3.1.3.

For F.3 promoted to F.4

Scholarships are calculated based on their scores of the best 6 subjects in the final examinations with passes in all subjects. The rules are summarized below:

Top 20% of students taking a subject will be allocated with scholarship points.

Points will be assigned to students with scholarship points which are calculated as follows:

Scholarship Points =

Scholarship points for the best 6 subjects of a student with passes in all subjects will be calculated and scholarships will be allocated to the top 50 students as follows:

Rank Order	Scholarship
1 – 6	FULL
7 – 21	50%
22 – 36	25%
37 – 50	10%

	3.1.4.

For F.4 DSE class promoted to F.5

Scholarships are calculated based on their scores of the best 6 subjects in the final examinations with passes in all subjects. The rules are summarized below:

Top 20% of students taking a subject will be allocated with scholarship points.

Points will be assigned to students with scholarship points which are calculated as follows:

Scholarship Points =

Scholarship points for the best 6 subjects of a student with passes in all subjects will be calculated and scholarships will be allocated to the top 25% of students as follows:

Rank Order	Scholarship
Top 5%	FULL
Top 6 - 10%	50%
Top 11 - 20%	25%
Top 21 - 25%	10%

	3.1.5.

For F.5 DSE class promoted to F.6

Scholarships are calculated based on their scores of the best 5 subjects in the final examinations with passes in all subjects. The rules are summarized below:

Top 20% of students taking a subject will be allocated with scholarship points.

Points will be assigned to students with scholarship points which are calculated as follows:

Scholarship Points =

Scholarship points for the best 5 subjects of a student with passes in all subjects will be calculated and scholarships will be allocated to the top 25% of students as follows:

Rank Order	Scholarship
Top 5%	FULL
Top 6 - 10%	50%
Top 11 - 20%	25%
Top 21 - 25%	10%

3.1.6.

For students taking Public Examinations: BTEC, IELTS, IGCSE, IAL A2 / GCE A2, DSE:

Scholarships are also given to students who get outstanding results in their public examinations. The rules are as follows:

For students taking BTEC
Distinction grade obtained in BTEC Examination is equivalent to Grade 9 in IGCSE for the allocation of Scholarships.

For F.4 students taking IGCSE:

IGCSE (2 subjects of Level 8 = 1 subject of Level 9)	Overall Achievement (Excluding Chinese)	Scholarship
	8 subjects of Level 9 or above	Full Scholarship (100% Fee Remission) for F.5
	7 subjects of Level 9	Half Scholarship (50% Fee Remission) for F.5
	6 subjects of Level 9	Half Scholarship (50% Fee Remission) for F.5
	5 subjects of Level 9	$ 2,000 for F.5
	4 subjects of Level 9	$ 2,000 for F.5

F.4 students who do not receive scholarship from the above table will be awarded $500 for each subject with Level 9 in IGCSE (except Chinese).

For F.4 students taking CIE French / IGCSE French, Spanish and German:
A* in CIE is equivalent to level 9 in IGCSE for the allocation of Scholarships.

For F.5 students taking IELTS:

Overall Marks	Scholarship
9	$ 2,000
8.5	$ 1,500
8	$ 1,000

For F.5 students taking IAS excluding Chinese: (with effective from 2024-2025)

Grade in IAS (excluding Chinese)	Scholarship
A	$1,000

For F.6 students taking IAL / GCE A-Level excluding Chinese:

Grade in IAL / GCE A-Level (excluding Chinese)	Scholarship
A*	$1,000

For F.6 students taking HKDSE:

Grade in HKDSE	Scholarship
5**	$ 2,000
5*	$ 1,000

3.2.

Point system is applied for the assessment of non-academic scholarship

as attached Annex D.

	3.3.

Partial subsidies in a form of scholarship will also be issued to students representing the school for competitions abroad or for exchange programmes, study tours or performances outside of Hong Kong.

Notification of results

The school scholarship team will issue offering letters of scholarship to the scholarship holder's parents/ guardians who will fill in and return the letter of acceptance to school in mid-September. Payment of scholarships will be made in two equal instalments in November and March by direct credit to the parent's designated bank account.

Review of policies

The policies and rules will be reviewed from time to time by the school fee remission / scholarship team and changes will be made after the approval from school authority with effect from the coming academic year 2025/2026.

(Latest revision was made in July, 2024)

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