‘Wah! The same again!’ Hong Kong pupil alerts teacher to possible test paper leak
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A shout from an excited little boy alerted a teacher to the possible leaking of interview questions for a school admission test.
At his interview, the kindergarten pupil said the Chinese and English words the teacher showed him were the same as those cited by his mother in revision practice the night before, Kowloon City Court heard yesterday.
Mak Suk-yee, a teacher at Church of Christ in China Heep Woh Primary School in Prince Edward, said the pupil’s reaction to the interview on June 14, 2014 was unusual.
Mak said she showed the boy some Chinese words and wanted to see whether the boy knew them. The boy replied: “The words were the same as those my mother revised with me last night.”
The words were the same as those my mother revised with me last night.
When Mak showed him some English words, the boy said: “Wah! The same again!”
Mak immediately suspected the test paper contents had been leaked and marked on the boy’s paper that “the result is not accurate”. She made a report to Chong Wai-chu, the teacher in charge of interview arrangements.