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Parents of pupils in a school with aided Form IV places will be advised
to note the very great importance of selecting that school as their
first choice. In view of the limited number of Form IV places in
prevocational schools, eligible pupils in these schools will be given
the alternative of going to an Anglo-Chinese grammar or technical school
but those who are not studying in Form III of a prevocational school will
not be allowed to opt to go on to Form IV of a prevocational school.
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It is intended to release the results of the selection and
allocation in July each year, and each participating pupil will be given
a temporary result slip showing grades achieved in each subject. Pupils
allocated subsidised Form IV places will also be given a registration
form for the appropriate school. Each participating pupil will receive
a Junior Certificate of Education consisting of two parts. The first
part will certify that the holder has completed three years of junior
secondary education and will contain grades (scaled and unscaled) of
all subjects taken by the pupil during his Form III year: this part will
be computer-printed and validated by the Director of Education. The
second part will contain assessments by the school on the pupil's personal
-qualities and activities: this will be signed by the school principal.
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A special point of interest is that when the JSEA scheme
was conceived it was realised that research would have to be carried
out to help determine the most appropriate method of scaling internal
assessments as well as the level of accuracy of internal assessments,
bearing in mind the lack of experience in Hong Kong of this type of scheme.
It was decided to await the research findings before making a final decision
on whether or not the pupils' personal performance in the scaling test
should also be counted in the selection procedures. Part of the research
was accordingly directed towards a comparison of selection procedures
based on scaled internal assessments alone and those based on scaling
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