Examination Regulations

1. All students must wear proper school uniform when they attend school examinations. Punishments will be given to those students who violate the uniform code.

2. You must maintain absolute silence once you have entered an examination room.

3. During the examination period, students have to come back to school only when they have to attend an examination.

4. There will be no makeup examination even if a student is sick on the day of an examination.

5. All students will be seated according to the seating plan posted at the entrance of examination venues.

6. Grade 7, Grade 8 and Grade 9 students should assemble at the covered playground at least 10 minutes before the examination is due to start and line up by class under the instructions of Discipline Teachers.

7. Grade 10, Grade 11 and Grade 12 students should assemble outside the venue at least 10 minutes before the examination is due to start.

8. Students are strongly advised not to bring any kinds of electronic devices (such as tablet, multimedia player, electronic dictionary, databank watch, smart watch or other wearable technologies with communication or data storage functions etc.) to the examination venue. If you have the above electronic devices with you, they must be switched off and put under your chair in a position visible to the invigilators. If the above electronic devices are found on your desk, or in the drawer of your desk, in your pockets or on your body during an examination, you may risk disqualified from the whole examination.

9. If the use of calculator is allowed for an examination, the calculators must have been pad-printed with the “H.K.E.A.A. APPROVED” or “H.K.E.A. APPROVED” label. Students bringing a calculator without the required label to the examination will risk a mark penalty. You are required to remove the calculator cover/jacket and place it inside your bag or under your chair during the examination.

10. No student is permitted to leave early before the end of an examination.

11. Late comers are permitted to take the examination but no extra time will be awarded. Chief Invigilators should record the student’s name and arrival time in the Sessional Report.

12. If you have to go to the toilet during an examination, you must raise your hand to summon an invigilator. You are not allowed to have wallet and any electronic device in your pockets or on your body when you go to the toilet. Students are required to record their names, the time you leave and the time you return to the examination room on a record form. Only one student is allowed to go to the toilet at a time. No extra time will be awarded.