The HK DSE exams have now started. It is of some relief that virus transmission in Hong Kong has fallen enough that these exams can go ahead. One must feel for the students undertaking these exams with the disrupted school year they have had.
Hong Kong students took university entrance exams in their tens of thousands on Monday in the diploma’s biggest sitting since the Covid-19 crisis began, although 42 were absent or turned away with fever and other illnesses.
Some 47,700 Diploma of Secondary Education candidates sat liberal studies, the first core-subject test of the term.
The total number of those reporting ill so they could not take or finish the DSE exams, which began on Friday, was at 62 on Monday after 20 fell into that category last week.
Many candidates arrived more than an hour early to the 243 secondary schools running the exams amid strict anti-contagion measures.
Upon entering the venues, candidates were required to submit a health declaration form and have their temperature checked. Anyone with a temperature over 38 degrees Celsius would be asked to leave and see a doctor immediately.
All us here at the ChalkFace wish the best of luck to all those students sitting their DSE exams.
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