A total of 36 ESF students achieved 44 points or above in this year's IB exam, with 12 of them achieving a perfect score of 45 points - 11 students fewer than last year. Of the 2,324 Hong Kong students participating in the exam, 23 of them were assessed for the top score, with ESF students accounting for half of them. "Hong Kong is an excellent place to study medicine because there is a lot of diversity, including myself - so I can encounter different diseases and forms of illnesses when studying in Hong Kong," she said. Of students taking this year's IB exam, 641 of them received high marks of over 40 points. Meanwhile, some 54,112 students learned which secondary school they will be attending in September as results for the Secondary School Places Allocation were announced yesterday.

Source: The Standard July 07, 2020 19:07 UTC