Make sure you understand the rules of the HKCEE before you go into exams, students have been urged.
'More than 2,000 candidates received mark penalties for breaking examination regulations in the 1996 examinations,' Cheung Wai-lun, examinations officer of the Hong Kong Examinations Authority (HKEA), told Young Post.
Mr Cheung said most penalties were for candidates bringing in calculators without the 'HKEA Approved' label on them, sitting papers at the wrong centres and writing on alternate lines in their English compositions.
Others use names or addresses other than those specified on the composition question papers.
Mr Cheung advised candidates to check the examination centres listed on their admission forms before exam day and check how to get there by public transport.
'If necessary, they should make a trial visit to the schools concerned to avoid the tension of looking for a centre that they have never been to before on the morning of the examination,' he said.
Candidates should check school names and addresses carefully when they got their admission forms.
