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Parents to receive school choice information
Parents of primary six pupils participating in the Secondary School Places Allocation 1997 will receive information on the choice of secondary schools and the results of Medium of Instruction Grouping Assessment of their children through the schools tomorrow (Tuesday).
This year a total of around 78,000 pupils have participated in the system.
The Secondary One Choice of Schools Form is for parents to indicate their school choices of secondary schools, based on the particulars of the secondary schools listed in the Secondary School List of their respective school nets.
Parents can make a maximum of 30 school choices should the number of schools in their school nets reach this number.
In any case, parents should include as many school choices as possible since this will increase the chance of their children being allocated to a school of their choice.
Parents are reminded that prevocational schools, like other schools, participate in the central allocation.
They can therefore choose prevocational schools supplying school places in their school nets along with other schools on the school list.
Information on Medium of Instruction Grouping will enable parents to choose a secondary school which offers a suitable language of instruction for their children.
The grouping is based on the schools' internal assessments on pupils at the end of primary five and during the mid-year of primary six, both of which are scaled by the results of the Academic Aptitude Test.
Pupils in the Medium of Instruction Grouping I should be able to learn effectively in either English or Chinese.
Those in the Grouping II should learn more effectively through the Chinese medium while those in the Grouping III should learn better through the Chinese medium but probably also be able to learn effectively in English.