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made of the internal assessments among schools, given that standards
Students' personal
of marking are bound to vary from school to school.
performance in the scaling test will not be counted. In the allocation
process separate orders of merit will be drawn up for Anglo-Chinese,
Chinese middle and prevocational schools.
Parents will be asked to
choose 15 schools in order of preference from a territory-wide list of
schools providing subsidized Form IV places and also list five preferred
geographical areas out of a total of 16 in case they do not get one of
the choices of school.
Parents will be given detailed guidelines to
assist them to make a wise choice: they will be advised in particular to
ensure that the schools they choose do not offer subjects different from
those their children have been studying in Form III. This will be
particularly important in respect of technical schools.*
18.
Aided Form IV places will be allocated centrally and will be
based on parents' choice and the pupil's position in the relevant order
of merit, in the following sequence of allocațion:
(a) eligible pupils from schools with subsidised
Form IV places who have made their own school
their first choice will be allocated first;
(b) if there are insufficient Form IV places in a
school to accommodate all such pupils, the
remainder who cannot be given places will be
allocated next. Eligible pupils coming from
schools without any subsidised Form IV places
will be given the same priority as this group;
(c) eligible pupils from schools with subsidised
Form IV places who have not made their own
school their first choice will be allocated last.
* Chapter 5 shows the numbers of public-sector senior secondary places
to be made available up to 1984 and the proportions of the 15-16 year- old population to be catered for.