Name: Mayce Hui Age: 17
Top Tunes: Canto- and English pop
I sat for this year's HKCEE. The new grading system can reflect your real ability because it's based on how many marks you get for the exam paper. In the past, your grades were a comparison with other candidates. So the new structure is fairer. But, I feel that we're being used as guinea pigs to test the system. There's more pressure since no one really knows how well it works, and most importantly,
if the schools have already adapted to the new system.
Name: Nausicaa Tse Age: 17
Top Tunes: English songs
I am an HKCEE candidate this year and I feel that I'm lucky. As we're the first batch of students to be graded under the new system, I think the marking was probably less strict. But I think it's easier to get a good grade under the old system. This is because you can get an A as long as you do better than most of the other students. But, under the new system, to get a 5* you have to pass a certain benchmark, which may be difficult to obtain if the paper is too challenging.