Four students get top grades in DSE exams
Officials on Tuesday said 42 percent of this year's DSE exam candidates have got the grades needed for a university place, with four of them receiving perfect scores. Some 48,000 candidates will receive their results on Wednesday. Four got top marks in seven subjects, with three of them also acing an extended maths paper. Wei Xiangdong, who heads the Examinations and Assessment Authority, said there was no significant difference in candidates' performance compared to those who sat the exams last year. Asked about a case where an exam marker allegedly posted the cover of a confidential marking scheme on social media platform Xiaohongshu, Wei said the authority has reported the matter to the police. "We believe this is a major violation of our rules governing the markers," he said.  "For all the exam personnel including markers, when we first hired them, we will ask them to sign an agreement so they have to keep secret all the materials we have given to them."