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Parents of pupils in a school with aided Form IV places will be advised

to note the very great importance of selecting that school as their

first choice. In view of the limited number of Form IV places in

prevocational schools, eligible pupils in these schools will be given

the alternative of going to an Anglo-Chinese grammar or technical school

but those who are not studying in Form III of a prevocational school will

not be allowed to opt to go on to Form IV of a prevocational school.

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It is intended to release the results of the selection and

allocation in July each year, and each participating pupil will be given

a temporary result slip showing grades achieved in each subject. Pupils

allocated subsidised Form IV places will also be given a registration

form for the appropriate school. Each participating pupil will receive

a Junior Certificate of Education consisting of two parts. The first

part will certify that the holder has completed three years of junior

secondary education and will contain grades (scaled and unscaled) of

all subjects taken by the pupil during his Form III year: this part will

be computer-printed and validated by the Director of Education. The

second part will contain assessments by the school on the pupil's personal

-qualities and activities: this will be signed by the school principal.

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A special point of interest is that when the JSEA scheme

was conceived it was realised that research would have to be carried

out to help determine the most appropriate method of scaling internal

assessments as well as the level of accuracy of internal assessments,

bearing in mind the lack of experience in Hong Kong of this type of scheme.

It was decided to await the research findings before making a final decision

on whether or not the pupils' personal performance in the scaling test

should also be counted in the selection procedures. Part of the research

was accordingly directed towards a comparison of selection procedures

based on scaled internal assessments alone and those based on scaling

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