A 16-year-old boy wants to study for a double degree in law and science at the University of Hong Kong after attaining an almost perfect score in the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education exams.
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He was among 40,000 students who received their public exam report cards yesterday, in which 10 top scorers got 5** in six subjects and a pass in the new citizenship and social development exam.
Among the 10, there were seven boys and a girl who attained 5** in an extended component of mathematics (M1/M2), making them super top scorers.
The top scorers came from eight mostly prestigious schools. And eight of them said they plan to study medicine.
Lau Wan, 16, from Po Leung Kuk Centenary Li Shiu Chung Memorial College in Tuen Mun, said he did not feel stressed preparing and that reading books and playing video games had been his best stress buster.
Agnes Lau Hok-yau, 17, from Ying Wa Girls' School was the only female super top scorer this year.
Despite receiving a conditional offer from University of Edinburgh's medical school in Scotland, Lau said she will discuss with her parents whether to pursue studies locally or overseas.
"I am more than happy as long as I am taking a medical program. It is my dream program," she said.
Jenny Iu Chun-yi, 17, became the first-ever top scorer from Hong Kong Chinese Women's Club College in Sai Wan Ho.
Iu said she wants to study medicine in Hong Kong after being inspired by a K-drama series.
St Joseph's College saw its first super top scorer. Ander Liu Chun-cheung, 17, said he would like to study medicine in Hong Kong and has no plans to study abroad.
"It fits my career path more as I would like to stay in Hong Kong and work as a doctor," Liu said.
"I think for us, locals being doctors can communicate better with patients and understand their needs better."
Both Liu and Yip Shiu-yuen, 18, a super top scorer from King's College, have yet to decide whether to go to HKU or Chinese University.
One of the two super top scorers from St Paul's Co-educational College, Wong Shue-hei, 17, said he is also eyeing either HKU or CUHK. The other, Au Yeung Cheung-wai, 17, said he will study either economics in the United Kingdom or global business at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
La Salle College in Kowloon Tong had two high achievers.
Super top scorer Paolo Chung Pak-lun, 17, will study economics, finance, and data science at Imperial College London, while Josh Chan Chak-fung, 18, wants to study medicine at CUHK.
Two super top scorers, Jonathan Chan Yiu-sang, 18, from Diocesan Boys' School in Mong Kok, and Titus Kwong Wang-chit, 18, from Pui Ching Middle School in Ho Man Tin, also plan to pursue medicine at CUHK.
Nine-year-old Leung Chi-yan from Hong Kong Baptist University Affiliated School Wong Kam Fai Secondary and Primary School in Sha Tin achieved 5** in the extended part of mathematics.
He is the youngest exam sitter this year and said he hopes to become a mathematician.
Shi Haoming, a grade 12 boy from Shenzhen Hong Kong Pui Kiu College Longhua Xinyi School, was satisfied with the results and hoped to study biomedical sciences at HKU.
He was among 110 mainland students who sat the exam after two mainland exam centers were set up in Shenzhen and Guangzhou for the first time.
Separately, males might have benefited more in this year's DSE after the citizenship and social development exam, which only had one exam paper consisting of multiple-choice and short-answer questions.
That meant a shorter exam time than the previous liberal studies exam, which mostly required long answers.
Hok Yau Club student consultant Ng Po-shing told The Standard males might have performed better in CSD than in LS exams, as fewer long questions required writing.
"Meanwhile, a shorter lesson time of CSD also helped students to have more time to study other subjects," he said.
However, since it was only the first year the CSD exam commenced, Ng said more time is needed to see whether boys are benefiting more from CSD exams, and if there will be more male top scorers in the future.
