HKDSE exam results reveal eight top scorers from eight schools

This year, eight students from different schools around Hong Kong have achieved top marks in the HKDSE, including four “super top scorers,” which means they achieved an additional 5** in the Maths Extended (M1/M2) exam.  

Almost all eight were from elite schools, as students returned to the campus to receive their results on Wednesday morning.  

All eight top scorers - five boys and three girls - were from different schools, including King’s College, Queen’s College, Diocesan Girls’ School, Heep Yunn School, Queen Elizabeth School, La Salle College, Pui Ching Middle School, and Carmel Secondary School.  

The four “super top scorers,” comprising two boys and two girls, were from Heep Yunn School, Queen Elizabeth School, Pui Ching Middle School, and Carmel Secondary School.  

The pupils were among 47,891 candidates who sat the Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) exams between April 22 and May 14.  

The Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority announced yesterday that a total of 17,336, 41.9 percent, students achieved the minimum requirements to get into the eight universities. They scored level 3 or above in Chinese and English and level 2 or above in mathematics, liberal studies, and an elective subject.  

Carmel Secondary School’s Tsang Chi-pang is the school’s first-ever top scorer in the DSE exams.  

He noted his grades are better than expected, and he plans to study Quantitative Finance and Risk Management Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.   

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Another “super top scorer” - Kristy Chow Hoi-tung from Heep Yunn School, scored 5** in all 4 core subjects, music, biology, physics, and her extended mathematics module.  

Chow said she was overjoyed when receiving her results, adding that she wants to study at the Medical School of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She felt that Hong Kong’s medical system was under immense pressure during the Covid-19 pandemic and hoped to do her part and contribute to society.   

Like Chow, super top scorer Calvin Tse Shing-chun from Queen Elizabeth School and top scorer Mak Ho-pong from Queen’s College also said they would like to study medicine at CUHK, hoping to get themselves into the university’s Global Physician-Leadership Stream medicine program.  

The medicine program at the University of Hong Kong attracted Pui Ching Middle School’s super top scorer Jerone Chiu, who said she was attracted to human biology after attending her biology classes at school.  

Meanwhile, top scorers Kam Chung-hin from King’s College and Cheung Yan-shek from La Salle College would also like to study medicine but are yet to decide which university they would apply to.  

Separately, Sin Ka-long from Diocesan Girls’ School said she would like to pursue her study overseas, hoping to study social anthropology or political science at the University of Cambridge in the UK.  

She said the UK university offers more freedom regarding module selection, and she hopes to explore the world while she is still young.
 

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