Hong Kong schools get International Baccalaureate exam results, 38 pupils bagging full marks
Total of top scorers up on last year’s initial count, Diocesan Boys’ School in Mong Kok beating its own internal record with seven sets of full marks
Local school leavers have beaten last year’s initial count of top scorers in the International Baccalaureate exams with 38 of them getting full marks for the May papers.
The number of students with top marks, released on Friday, was up on last year’s total of 33. But last year’s increased to 40 after re-marking.
Diocesan Boys’ School had seven top scorers – a record for the Mong Kok institution. Two students from Victoria Shanghai Academy and one from Canadian International School, both in Aberdeen, also managed not to drop a single mark. So did one pupil from the International Schools Foundation Academy, two from Po Leung Kuk Choi Kai Yau School, two from St Stephen’s College, five from St Paul’s Co-educational College, two from German Swiss International School and 15 across all English Schools Foundation colleges.
The International Baccalaureate (IB) is a two-year programme aimed at 16- to 19-year-olds. Recognised by many universities, it offers an internationally accepted qualification for entry into higher education, and has been available in Hong Kong since 1988.
According to the International Baccalaureate Organisation, 2,291 Hong Kong pupils took the exams across 29 international and local schools.
