QUEEN'S College, the school that never fails to get some of the best public exam results in the territory, has excelled once again. Three of its students - Ng Ying-kit, Lee Shing-cho and Li Yu-chi - join the academic elite with five As in the A-levels.
Ying-kit scored an A(1) in all five subjects - Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Use of English.
His friend Shing-cho earned an A(1) in four subjects - Pure Mathematics, Physics, Applied Mathematics and Use of English and an A(2) in Chemistry, and his other close friend Yu-chi gained an A(1) in Physics and Chemistry, and an A(2) in Pure Mathematics,Applied Mathematics and Use of English.
Another four students - Tsui Yin-fung, Alexander Lau Wai-leuk, Law Man-chung and Cheung Kwok-ho - obtained four As each.
Ying-kit, 18, was confident his results would be good. His estimation was based on his outstanding academic performance over the past two years.
''But I did not expect an A in Use of English,'' the science student said. ''I also think I had a lot of luck!'' Ying-kit wants to study Computer Engineering at the University of Hongkong.
''I became interested in computers in Form 3. Their complexity excited me, and I would spend hours playing around with one,'' he said.