Assessment of Language Competence Examinations
168 Palmerston North Boys’ High School students of French, German and Japanese participated in the online Assessment of Language Competence examinations in August, along with other schools in New Zealand and Australia. The three Certificates offered in each language assess listening and reading.
The following students achieved High Distinction or Distinction:
Certificate 1 French
HIGH DISTINCTION in
Listening and Reading: Jack Harrison, Ethan Johanson
HIGH DISTINCTION in Listening and DISTINCTION in Reading: Nikhil Banerjee
DISTINCTION in Listening and Reading: Andrew Harris, Quinn Dutton-Elliott
DISTINCTION in Listening: Mitchell Bing
Certificate 2 French
HIGH DISTINCTION in Listening and DISTINCTION in Reading: Aidan
Berkahn
HIGH DISTINCTION in Reading and DISTINCTION in Listening: Lachlan Walcroft
DISTINCTION in Listening and Reading: Toor Butt, Alistair Keay-Graham
DISTINCTION in Listening: Antoine Ryba-Edwards, Dalton Watson
DISTINCTION in Reading: Zac Frida, Zayne Kirkby
Certificate 3 French
HIGH DISTINCTION in Reading:
Denzel Chung
DISTINCTION in Reading: Mark Cagaoan, Alex Petrovich
Certificate 1 German
HIGH DISTINCTION in Listening and DISTINCTION in Reading: Kevin
Li
HIGH DISTINCTION in Listening: Cody Allen, Robert Norman
DISTINCTION in Listening and Reading: Victor Susa
DISTINCTION in Listening: Andrew Karatea, Isaac Newland, Jacob Ogilvie, Samuel Stewart
Certificate 2 German
HIGH DISTINCTION in Listening and Reading:
Janos Heiser
HIGH DISTINCTION in Reading and DISTINCTION in Listening: Dylan Bary, Bede Skinner-Vennell, Kyle Vertongen
DISTINCTION in Listening and Reading: Kyle Bradley, Malik Ryniker, Sean Scott
DISTINCTION in Listening: Max Edwards, Ben Roberts, Blake Wilson
DISTINCTION in Reading: Aedan Owen
Certificate 3 German
HIGH DISTINCTION in Listening and Reading: Finlay McRae
HIGH DISTINCTION in Reading: Anu Muller-O’Neill
DISTINCTION in Reading: Horatiu Susa
Certificate 1 Japanese
HIGH DISTINCTION in Listening and Reading: Samuel Goodman
HIGH DISTINCTION in Listening and DISTINCTION in Reading: Rohan Sharma
HIGH DISTINCTION in Listening: Kokoro Frost
DISTINCTION in Listening and Reading: Xingcheng Gu
DISTINCTION in Listening: Hasan Mehmood
DISTINCTION in Reading: Neelay Satya
Certificate 2 Japanese
HIGH DISTINCTION in Listening and Reading: Eric Kwon
DISTINCTION in Listening and Reading: Dan Heaphy, Denzil Sami
DISTINCTION in Reading: Jordan Richard
Certificate 3 Japanese
DISTINCTION in Reading: Roman Jensen
DELF Scolaire examinations
PNBHS is an examination centre for the French DELF Scolaire examinations, an internationally recognised and accredited four-levelled qualification which tests listening, reading, speaking and writing. This September, five of our students joined twelve students from Napier and Wanganui to sit the DELF examination. Nikhil Banerjee gained the A1, the first level of the qualification, with 83% and Thiliner Ariyaratne achieved 72.5%. Results in the A2 examination were similar, with Alistair Keay-Graham achieving 92%, Michael Poff 81% and Aidan Berkahn 75.5%. These students are to be congratulated on their success.
