Published: 4:09pm, 15 Jul 2025Updated: 4:48pm, 15 Jul 2025
Sixteen students have achieved perfect scores in Hong Kong’s university entrance exams, the highest number in the programme’s history and up from last year’s 11, according to authorities.
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One top Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) scorer secured the highest grade across seven subjects, including three core ones and four electives and the extended maths module, as well as securing an “attained” grade in citizenship and social development.
About 38.5 per cent of all DSE candidates, or 16,393 students, also attained the minimum entrance requirements for the city’s eight public universities, up from 37.6 per cent, or 15,626, last year.
Figures from past years indicated that about 12,000 of the 15,000 university places would go to DSE candidates who had applied via Jupas.
Jupas is a centralised system for applying to pursue full-time undergraduate programmes.
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The remaining 3,000 are typically offered to those with non-Jupas qualifications, such as those taking the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme.