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Each institution has its own institution-wide minimum admission requirements, as summarised at Annex B. Some institutions have also maintained slightly different minimum admission requirements for their different departments or faculties, mainly in the results attained in the Use of English of the IIong Kong Advanced Supplementary (AS) Level Examination. The institutions have not lowered their entry requirements. in order to enrol adequate numbers of students although some institutions have allowed their departments flexibility in considering whether applicants have met the specified language requirements for admission to some courses. For example, the Chinese University of Hong Kong has accepted a few students who have obtained Grade F in AS-Level Use of English but managed to pass the Supplementary English Examination as having fulfilled the English requirement for admission to some of the University's courses. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has lowered the admission requirement of Grade D in the AS-Level Use of English to Grade E for some students. These students are nevertheless required to take and pass a non- credit-bearing language enhancement course, failing which they will not be allowed to continue their studies. Furthermore, the City University of Hong Kong has waived the Chinese Language requirement for applicants to its four full-time bachelor's degree courses offered by the Faculty of Science and Technology.