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2.6

The means by which sufficient junior secondary

form places for every child can be provided as rapidly

as possible are outlined in Chapter 3. When there are

sufficient subsidised junior secondary places available

to provide for every child completing six years of primary

education, the existing Secondary School Entrance

Examination, which is the method now used to select pupils

for subsidised secondary education, will no longer be

necessary and can be abolished.

2.7

With the abolition of the Secondary School Entrance

Examination, an alternative system will have to be devised

to regulate the flow of students from primary to junior

secondary schools. As far as possible, a secondary school

will take its pupils from primary schools in the same area.

It will be the responsibility of each school to select its

pupils under the general supervision of the Education

Department, which will co-ordinate the placing of children

for whom school places are not available near their homes.

A secondary school will be encouraged to accept pupils of

all levels of ability. It should seek advice on a pupil's

abilities from the head of his primary school and will be

discouraged from setting its own private entrance examination.

However, a secondary school which also runs a linked primary

school will be allowed to give preference to pupils from

the latter.

2.8

Senior secondary forms

After completing the three years junior secondary

course, children selected by means of a new public

examination in Form III will enter senior secondary grammar

or senior secondary technical forms. It is intended that

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