Seventeen-year-old Daniel Hughes is sitting five NCEA scholarship exams - even though he already passed three of them last year. The Aquinas College student is a maths and science whizz kid who passed most of his NCEA Level 3 subjects while still in Year 12.
Next week, Mr Hughes will be sitting calculus, physics, statistics, chemistry and French scholarship level exams, plus chemistry and French level 3 exams. He passed his other subjects last year.
Mr Hughes, a Pyes Pa resident, also passed three of the scholarship exams last year, but is resitting them to see if he can do any better.
"For me, maths and science just clicks," Mr Hughes said. "I don't have to study for hours on end. Once I get it, I've got it and I don't have to go over it.
"I've had science books that I've been reading since I was young. It all just came from reading and working it out from there."