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Secondary school pupils across Hong Kong are receiving their results on Wednesday for this year’s university entrance exams.
The day marks the culmination of hours of study and preparation for the 49,026 candidates who sat the Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) exams, with 39,300 of them having applied to study at the city’s eight publicly funded universities through the Joint University Programmes Admissions System (Jupas).
There will be a wave of relief for the 18,392 pupils, or 37.5 per cent, who have met the general entrance requirements set by these universities, slightly higher than last year’s 34.7 per cent. 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.
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”.
The Examinations and Assessment Authority 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.
This year, 8 male and 2 female pupils scored a perfect 5** on the DSE’s seven-level grading scale across all six subjects, with a pass result in the citizenship course. Of the 10, eight were “super” top scorers for also achieving a 5** for an extended mathematics elective module.
Follow our live blog for the latest information on this year’s DSE results.
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.
