6.
2.6
The means by which sufficient junior secondary
form places for every child can be provided as rapidly
as possible are outlined in Chapter 3. When there are
sufficient subsidised junior secondary places available
to provide for every child completing six years of primary
education, the existing Secondary School Entrance
Examination, which is the method now used to select pupils
for subsidised secondary education, will no longer be
necessary and can be abolished.
2.7
With the abolition of the Secondary School Entrance
Examination, an alternative system will have to be devised
to regulate the flow of students from primary to junior
secondary schools. As far as possible, a secondary school
will take its pupils from primary schools in the same area.
It will be the responsibility of each school to select its
pupils under the general supervision of the Education
Department, which will co-ordinate the placing of children
for whom school places are not available near their homes.
A secondary school will be encouraged to accept pupils of
all levels of ability. It should seek advice on a pupil's
abilities from the head of his primary school and will be
discouraged from setting its own private entrance examination.
However, a secondary school which also runs a linked primary
school will be allowed to give preference to pupils from
the latter.
2.8
Senior secondary forms
After completing the three years junior secondary
course, children selected by means of a new public
examination in Form III will enter senior secondary grammar
or senior secondary technical forms. It is intended that
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