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| Janet Hung Chau-yin teaches Chinese at St Paul’s Co-educational College |
Dubbed the “paper of death”, poor Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education results are proving a major hindrance to admission
Daniel Lee Cheuk-hin aced the maths and science exams for his Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE) last year. He also scored grade 4 for English. That’s pretty good going, but his Chinese result came as an enormous blow: he only achieved grade 2. The failed grade dashed his dreams of entering university, rendering his stellar results in other subjects meaningless.
