Hong Kong DSE: 8 elite schools produce 10 top students in university entrance exams – as it happened
- Culmination of hours of hard work for the 49,026 candidates in this year’s Diploma of Secondary Education exams
Secondary school pupils across Hong Kong received their results on Wednesday for this year’s university entrance exams.
There was a wave of relief for the 18,392 pupils, or 37.5 per cent, who met the general entrance requirements set by these universities. But they will still be waiting to see whether they have obtained the about 12,000 publicly funded undergraduate places for DSE students via Jupas.
The 10 students who obtained perfect scores in this year’s DSE exams came from eight elite schools.
Eight of them were “super” top scorers as they scored perfect grades in all subjects and an extended maths module: Wong Shue-hei and Au Yeung Cheung-wai from St Paul’s Co-educational College; Yip Shiu-yuen from King’s College; Lau Hok-yau from Ying Wa Girls’ School; Ander Liu Chun-cheung from St Joseph’s College; Chung Pak-lun from La Salle College; Titus Kwong Wang-chit from Pui Ching Middle School; and Jonathan Chan Yiu-sang from Diosecan Boys’ School.
The remaining two top scorers, Josh Chan Chak-fung from La Salle College and Jenny Iu Chun-yi from Hong Kong Chinese Women’s Club College, did not sit the extended modules.
This year’s cohort was also the first to sit exams for the new citizenship and social development core subject, which replaced liberal studies. Pupils will receive a grade of either “attained” or “unattained”.
Authorities said on Tuesday 93.7 per cent of day-school students and private candidates passed the course, slightly higher than the pass rate for liberal studies last year.
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Reporting by William Yiu, Emily Tsang, Kelly Fung, Tom Shuai, Vivian Miu, Kathryn Giordano, Joanne Yau, Alice Kong, Crystal Wu, James Modesto, Eric Jiang, Kamun Lai and Yijing Shen.