Hong Kong’s education authorities are considering flexible arrangements for the citywide tests that help determine secondary school placements, after about a third of the city’s primary schools were unable to hold one of the necessary assessments amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Under Hong Kong’s education system, all senior primary pupils have to undergo three tests that determine their chances of getting into their preferred secondary schools, one at the end of Primary Five, and two others that take place in the middle and end of Primary Six. It is understood that some or all of the pupils at about 150 primary schools have yet to take the tests, originally expected to be taken in June by more than 56,000 Primary Five students bound for secondary school next year.
Most cross-border students – Hongkongers living on the mainland with their families – have been unable to take the tests, as returning to the city has been impossible for many due to mandatory quarantine requirements and their lack of Hong Kong residences.
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"Students and teachers at S.K.H. St. James’ Primary School in Wan Chai pray for an easing of the coronavirus situation in Hong Kong as classes resumed in late June. A return to online learning was only about a month away" by Nora Tam - South China Morning Post
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