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(i.e. Middle VI) students took the Chinese

University Matriculation (now Higher Level)

Examination;

(iii) approximately 50 per cent of the two-year

course students took the Chinese University

Matriculation Examination in 1977 while in the Lower

Sixth Form (some Upper Sixth students also

participated in this examination);

(iv) only 50 per cent of the Lower Sixth students

proceeded to Upper Sixth to take the University

of Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination, the remaining

50 per cent being believed to have gone to one of the

following: the Polytechnic, nursing training, colleges

of education, post-secondary colleges, overseas study,

employment.

Paragraph 1.4 of the Sixth Form Report shows the number of students

entering the first year of the three major tertiary institutions as

a percentage of the number of examination candidates in the same year.

The analysis indicates that

(v)

in 1977, 2 per cent of the Matriculation (i.e.

Higher Level) candidature entered the Polytechnic

and 10 per cent entered the, Chinese University;

(vi) In 1978, 16 per cent of the Advanced Level

candidature entered the Polytechnic and 15 per

cent entered the University of Hong Kong:

(vii) of the 1192 students admitted into the Chinese

University in 1977, some 29 per cent had studied

in Upper Sixth and sat the Advanced Level examination;

the other 71 per cent (about 850 students) were admitted

on Matriculation results and represented about 7 per cent

of the total candidature for that examination in 1977.