DSE scores show fewer Hong Kong students make grade for local universities
1.3 percentage point drop in number achieving minimum points tally, but nearly 6,000 will still miss out on subsidised undergraduate courses
Fewer Hong Kong students met the basic requirement to enter local universities this year despite more of them achieving top scores in the public exam.
About 41 per cent of the 51,008 day school students taking the Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) achieved the minimum requirement for local undergraduate programmes, 1.3 percentage points down on last year, according to the Examinations and Assessment Authority.
A total of 20,885 made the cut, meaning there is a little less competition for the 15,000 subsidised first-year degree places at the eight local public universities.
Three male and three female high-fliers attained the highest level of 5** in seven subjects. Of these, one female student also got level 5** for the extended mathematics module. Two students with special educational needs attained 5** in four subjects.
Overall performance in English language was slightly worse than last year, with those attaining level 2 and above or level 3 and above falling by about three percentage points to 77 per cent and 52.2 per cent respectively among day school students.
