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APPENDIX A.

Performance of Candidates from Communist-Controlled Schools

in the Hong Kong Chinese School Certificate Examination, 1964-67, and

the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination (Chinese), 1968-69

Up to and including 1967, the main public examination in Hong Kong

sat by 5th year students of schools where Chinese was the language of

instruction was the Hong Kong Chinese School Certificate. To be

successful in this examination, a candidate had to obtain passes in 5

subjects, of which one had to be Chinese language, one a 'Science' subject,

and one an 'Arts' subject. The pass rate for Communist-controlled schools

in this examination for the years 1964-67 in comparison with that of all

schools in the Colony participating is given at Annex 1.

From 1968 onwards, this examination was renamed the Hong Kong

Certificate of Education (Chinese). The certificate given to a candidate

after the examination simply lists the subject taken by him and the grades

he achieved, these grades running in descending order from A to H. Grade

E under this system is regarded as the equivalent of the pass standard

of the former Hong Kong Chinese School Certificate Examination.

The results for communist-controlled schools in this examination

for the years 1968 and 1969 in comparison with those of all schools in

the Colony participating are given at Annex 2 and 3 respectively.

The standards of achievement by the communist-controlled schools

in both these examinations are markedly lower than those in other

participating schools in the Colony.