8 of 10 DSE top scorers want to be doctors, make Hong Kong ‘a better place’
- High-fliers among 49,000 day-school and private candidates who receive university entrance exam results
Eight of the 10 top scorers in this year’s university entrance exams in Hong Kong have said they want to study medicine locally to ease the shortage of doctors, with several expressing a desire to make their city “a better place”.
The high-fliers were among 49,000 day-school and private candidates of this year’s Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) exams who received their results on Wednesday.
All 10 top scorers were from elite schools in Hong Kong: St Paul’s Co-educational College, St Joseph’s College, Ying Wa Girls’ School, King’s College, Pui Ching Middle School, La Salle College, Diocesan Boys’ School and Hong Kong Chinese Women’s Club College.
It was the first time two schools, St Joseph’s College in the Mid-Levels and Hong Kong Chinese Women’s Club College in Eastern district, had top scorers since the introduction of the DSE exams in 2012.
St Paul’s Co-educational College in the Mid-Levels and La Salle College in Kowloon Tong each had two top scorers. Eight of the 10 top scorers also pursued the extended mathematics modules, on top of seven other subjects, to become “super top scorers”.
One of the two super top scorers from St Paul’s Co-educational College, Au Yeung Cheung-wai, 17, said he would study either economics in Britain or global business at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
