HKDSE results 2020: St Paul’s top in Hong Kong for students scoring clean sweep of highest grades, as 50,000 find out how they fared

Students collecting their Diploma of Secondary Education exam results online, following official Covid-19 advice

Those achieving level 5** across all seven subjects hail from four of Hong Kong’s elite schools

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DSE candidates are receiving their results today after a year heavily disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. Photo: Bloomberg

Published: 9:47am, 22 Jul 2020Updated: 10:44pm, 22 Jul 2020

Traditional elite school St Paul’s Co-educational College has topped the table for pupils achieving a clean sweep of the highest grades in Hong Kong’s university entrance exams this year, providing three of the seven students in the city who posted perfect results.

The high-fliers were among the 50,000 on Wednesday morning finding out their Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) exam results, which were released online this year so young people did not have to return to campus at most schools, in line with official advice during the city’s third wave of Covid-19.

Those sitting this year’s DSE exams were hit with an unprecedented series of challenges under the double whammy of anti-government protests, which erupted last June, and the ongoing pandemic.

Classes at Hong Kong schools were suspended from early February because of Covid-19, while the exams themselves were postponed for a month due to a surge of infections in March.

Of this year’s seven top scorers – those who attained the highest possible grade of level 5** across seven DSE subjects – at least two said they held ambitions to become doctors.