Published: 12:44pm, 6 Jul 2025Updated: 6:37pm, 6 Jul 2025
At least 29 students in Hong Kong have achieved top marks in the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme, even after a global outcry from test-takers over concerns that the mathematics subject was too difficult.
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More than 2,600 Hong Kong students sat the IB exams on May 15, 16 and 21, a near 20 per cent increase over the past five years, with the results released on Sunday.
The IB exams assess students’ knowledge of several core academic subjects and play a key role in their university applications.
Kristen Lo Man-yi, 17, was the only student from St Paul’s Co-Educational College to achieve a perfect score of 45 in the programme, while eight of her classmates got 44.
Kristen, who said she “didn’t expect this [result] at all”, immediately thanked her friends and classmates for their support throughout the two-year slog.
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“I think the IB is like a marathon, and so I think a lot of work is actually continuous because we have to test two years’ worth of knowledge,” she said.