Another Hong Kong student joins ‘super top scorers’ in university entrance exams, bringing number of high fliers to 5

Another student has been deemed a “super top scorer” for his performance in Hong Kong’s university entrance exams after his marks were raised following an appeal, bringing the number of high fliers to five.

Enzo Leung Ka-long, an 18-year-old who studied at Diocesan Boys’ School, originally scored a perfect 5** in six of his seven subjects and an extended mathematics module elective, narrowly missing out on becoming one of the top scorers in this year’s Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) examinations.

But his scores were upgraded after he filed an appeal, with the re-marked results for the exam released on Wednesday by the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority.

“I feel like I had to appeal my economics [exam results], because I always felt confident in this subject and I feel like I owed something to my economics teacher,” he said.

Leung said his original results were already a surprise as the student expected he would only score the top mark in four to five subjects. The adjusted grade was the “icing on the cake”, he added.

The upgrade makes him this year’s fifth so-called “super top scorer”, meaning he attained perfect marks in a total of eight subjects and he earned a 5** for the extended mathematics module elective.