Competition for Hong Kong university spots dips as 1,100 fewer entrance exam takers meet minimum requirements
- Nearly 6 per cent fewer than last year will contend for city’s 15,000 subsidised first-year degree placements
- Number of perfect scores also drops, with seven students earning a 5** rating – the highest possible – across the exam’s seven subjects
The Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority on Tuesday also announced that only seven students who sat for this year’s exam achieved a perfect score across its seven subjects, down from 12 in 2019.
Of the 50,000 full- and part-time candidates who sat the exam, about 45,000 were day school candidates, those who recently completed their secondary education.
Among that group, 18,572 achieved the minimum requirement for local undergraduate programmes, a 5.6 per cent drop from last year’s 19,676. They will compete for just 15,000 subsidised local first-year degree places.
“With the decrease of eligible students, obviously, I think it will be easier [to enter local universities] to some extent,” said Dr So Kwok-sang, the exam authority’s secretary general.
