AN examination intended to decide whether primary school pupils go to Chinese or English-language secondary schools has been scrapped following criticism from teachers and parents.
Internal school assessments will now be used in an effort to ease the pressure of exams on pupils, according to the Education Department.
Known as the Revised Method of Medium of Instruction Grouping Assessment, the new scheme has been approved by the Education Commission and will be adopted for entry to Secondary One in September 1994.
There will be Chinese and English subject groups under the revised assessments.
For most primary pupils the English group will consist of English language only, while the Chinese group will comprise the rest of the subjects.
Parents and teachers will be able to judge pupils' English or Chinese proficiency and decide which schools the pupils should go to, based on the assessment results.
Director of Education Dominic Wong Shing-wah said the new scheme would not mean any extra work for teachers and would lessen the pressure on students.