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SCMP Reporter

Updated at 6.41pm:
The examination authority has misprinted this year's Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination (HKCEE) exam results for 670 students due to human and computer errors, local media reported on Friday.

Examination and Assessment Authority Chairman Irving Koo Yee-yin said the errors occurred only to Syllabus B English language exam results. No other papers from this year' HKCEE exams were affected, he said.

The Syllabus B English language exam, which consists of writing, English usage, listening and oral sections, is the most commonly accepted yardstick for measuring English skills in the territory. 

Results are expressed in six grades, from the highest grade A to the lowest grade F - which means a failure. Candidates who perform so badly as to get a grade F are rated 'unclassified'.

The 670 affected students had their oral section results misprinted in their reports. Some had them miswritten as grade F, instead of the grade A they actually scored, local radio reported.

Mr Koo said an examination authority IT senior manager had resigned and one was suspended for the errors.

The authority said it had begun reissuing reports to affected students and contacting their schools. It said it would make sure students would not lose their Form Six places because of the errors.

Hong Kong's Form Five students have to sit for HKCEE exams before proceeding to Form Six.

Because of limited high school places, competition is keen. This year, more than 85,800 students must fight for some 30,000 Form Six places in public-sector schools.



Exam authority misprinted HKCEE results for 670 students