Online Distribution Of DSE Results 'smooth'

Both the exams body and students who sat this year's Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) exam said on Wednesday things were generally smooth when they picked up their results online, a special arrangement because of the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak.

Students had the option of either accessing their exam results through their emails or school intranet, or collecting them in person in their schools.

The secretary general of the Examinations and Assessment Authority, So Kwok-sang, said the exam results were available online from 9am.

Two students told an RTHK phone-in programme said the process was smooth.

But they had other complaints, saying their grades were affected by the cancellation of Chinese and English oral exams due to the outbreak.

One of them, surnamed Ng, also said he was disappointed with the scrapping of a controversial question on the history paper, saying he had focused on answering that question and spent less time on the rest.

The question, which asked students whether Japan did more good than harm to China between 1900 and 1945, was subsequently pulled after the Education Bureau said it was biased.

As for the top performers this year, they all came from the city's elite schools.

Four male and three female students, who scored 5** in seven subjects, came from St. Paul’s Co-educational College, Diocesan Girls’ School, Wah Yan College and Queen’s College.