The exams, first scheduled for 27 March, have already been postponed for one month to 24 April due to a daily surge of cases last month.
Hong Kong’s university entrance exams were “highly likely” to go ahead as planned next Friday, the city’s leader said on Tuesday, even as education officials were expected this week to outline the latest contingency plans in the event the spread of coronavirus worsens.
But results of a survey released on Tuesday showed more than 90 per cent of 11,000 DSE candidates polled this month had urged the government to further postpone the exams, citing potential risk of infection. About 52,000 are expected to sit for this year’s exam.“We have reviewed again [Tuesday] morning, and the chance of the DSE exams to go ahead [on April 24] is very high,” Lam said at an early evening press conference.
Education officials have been discussing contingency plans with university management and secondary school heads over the past few weeks. Assessment components for the DSE exams rely heavily on written tests, with only a small portion based on internal assessment results, unlike international exams such as the International Baccalaureate, which was cancelled last month.
Despite those precautions, pro-democracy student group Secondary Schools Student Strike Platform released a survey on Tuesday in which 90.2 per cent of 11,322 Form Six students and private candidates polled said the exams should be further postponed.
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