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SCMP Reporter

There were cheers and tears yesterday as the  results of the last Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination (HKCEE)  were released.
A total of 122,387 candidates took the exam this year, an increase of 6,860 from  last year.
Sixteen students  scored 10 As. St Joseph's College had four 10-A students; Queen's College and Diocesan Girls' School each had three; and  La Salle College  had two.  
King's College, St Paul's Co-educational College, Kwun Tong Maryknoll College and SKH Lam Woo Memorial Secondary School each had one 10-A student.  
The youngest candidate this year was Jessica Kong Hui-jun, 12, from Tai Po Sam Yuk Secondary School. She scored 24 points, with top grades in English and Putonghua. 
However, yesterday was not all joy. Students have to fight for a Form Six place  as competition heats up  - only 35,000 places are available to the 59,000 candidates who have met the minimum requirements.  This leaves  about 24,000 candidates racing around  trying to find a way to continue their studies.  
Some students whose results are not good enough to enter Form Six are planning  to apply for vocational programmes instead of repeating Form Five. 
At the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education's Haking Wong campus, anxious students and parents formed a long application queue  yesterday morning. Some students believe the prospects of repeating Form Five will not be great because this was the last HKCEE.
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