The Education Commission working group has developed a new means of moderating the varying standards of primary schools to replace the defunct Academic Aptitude Test.
It has proposed using the performance of students in the Pre-Secondary One Attainment Test taken in secondary schools to adjust the scores of individual primary students.
But to minimise the pressure that this would put on Primary Six students, the results of the students who left the same primary school in the previous year will be used.
This would be done to prevent a return to cramming, as primary schools would be less likely to drill their students because they would have left the school when they took the attainment test.
To further deter primary schools from drilling their students, the Education and Manpower Bureau will take samples of schools' results only once every other year.
Michael Tien Puk-sun, chairman of the working group who also chairs the Standing Committee on Language Education and Research, said this approach would counter the tendency among primary schools to seek to boost their reputations through exam results.