15-07-2025
- General
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong DSE: 16 students achieve perfect scores, highest in exam's history
Sixteen students have achieved perfect scores in Hong Kong's university entrance exams, the highest number in the programme's history and up from last year's 11, according to authorities.
About 38.5 per cent of all Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) candidates, or 16,393 students, also attained the minimum entrance requirements for the city's eight public universities, up from 37.6 per cent, or 18,455 students, last year.
Figures from past years indicated that about 12,000 of the 15,000 university places would go to DSE candidates who had applied via Jupas.
Jupas is a centralised system for applying to pursue full-time undergraduate programmes.
The remaining 3,000 are typically offered to those with non-Jupas qualifications, such as taking the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme.
All DSE candidates will receive their results on Wednesday.
