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(i.e. Middle VI) students took the Chinese
University Matriculation (now Higher Level)
Examination;
(iii) approximately 50 per cent of the two-year
course students took the Chinese University
Matriculation Examination in 1977 while in the Lower
Sixth Form (some Upper Sixth students also
participated in this examination);
(iv) only 50 per cent of the Lower Sixth students
proceeded to Upper Sixth to take the University
of Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination, the remaining
50 per cent being believed to have gone to one of the
following: the Polytechnic, nursing training, colleges
of education, post-secondary colleges, overseas study,
employment.
Paragraph 1.4 of the Sixth Form Report shows the number of students
entering the first year of the three major tertiary institutions as
a percentage of the number of examination candidates in the same year.
The analysis indicates that
(v)
in 1977, 2 per cent of the Matriculation (i.e.
Higher Level) candidature entered the Polytechnic
and 10 per cent entered the, Chinese University;
(vi) In 1978, 16 per cent of the Advanced Level
candidature entered the Polytechnic and 15 per
cent entered the University of Hong Kong:
(vii) of the 1192 students admitted into the Chinese
University in 1977, some 29 per cent had studied
in Upper Sixth and sat the Advanced Level examination;
the other 71 per cent (about 850 students) were admitted
on Matriculation results and represented about 7 per cent
of the total candidature for that examination in 1977.