Four top scorers among 17,450 DSE students who meet minimum university entry requirement

The Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority said ahead of results day tomorrow, a total of 17,450 Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education students have met the minimum university entry requirement, with four of them being this year’s top scorers.

According to the HKEAA, a total of four students - two boys and two girls - have achieved top scores in this year’s HKDSE exams, receiving perfect scores of 5** in each of the four core subjects and three electives.

Among them, two boys and one girl were also named “super top scorers,” with eight 5** in four core subjects, three electives, and the Mathematics extended module.

A total of 17,450 students among 42,328 day-school candidates have met the minimum university entry requirement this year. They obtained at least a Level 3 in Chinese Language and English Language, and at least a Level 2 in Maths and Liberal Studies.

With about 13,000 subsidized university places this year, it means that, on average, there are 1.33 students competing for each of these places, similar to last year's figure.

Among all day-school candidates, 60.4 percent and 53.4 percent reached level 3 or above in Chinese and English, respectively. The figures have slightly increased by 0.7 percent and 0.2 percent, respectively, compared to last year.

As for Maths and Liberal Studies, 82.2 percent and 90.4 percent of the candidates have scored at least level 2 or above.

The HKEAA also revealed at the press conference that one student was caught cheating during the exams by hiding handwritten cheat notes, with the Authority disqualifying the student’s results in all subjects.

There were also seven cases of photo-taking in the exam center or posting photos of the bar code labels or the exam venue online, which resulted in grade and mark deductions.