Seventeen Hong Kong students take wrong DSE art exam after school registers them for incorrect paper
Assessment authority receives letter from Queen Elizabeth School Old Students’ Association Secondary School asking it to ‘handle matter with discretion’
Seventeen students took the wrong university entrance exam last Friday after their school registered 20 of them for the incorrect visual arts paper.
A spokeswoman said the Hong Kong Examination and Assessment Authority received a letter from the Queen Elizabeth School Old Students’ Association Secondary School on Monday saying it had mistakenly applied for its visual arts students to take Paper 1 (Visual Presentation of a Theme) instead of Paper 2 (Design), which the pupils had studied for.
Paper 1 assesses candidates’ understanding and appreciation of artwork and artistic visual presentation of a theme. The paper requires them to write a critical appreciation of the reproductions of artwork provided, create a piece of artwork to present a theme and present an artwork statement.
Paper 2 assesses candidates’ understanding of design and their ability to solve given design problems in an innovative way. The paper requires them to write a critical appreciation of the reproductions of design provided, solve design problems and present a design work statement.
The spokeswoman said the authority had received a request from the school to “handle the matter with discretion”.
According to the report by the centre supervisor at the examination venue, some of the candidates involved informed an invigilator of the mistake, she said, adding that the supervisor had followed assessment authority guidelines.