The number of Hong Kong students bagging perfect scores in the International Baccalaureate (IB) exams dropped by nearly a third to 23 this year, with grading based on schoolwork after written tests were cancelled amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The figure was down from last year’s 34, despite the number of local candidates increasing slightly from 2,284 to this year’s 2,324. They were among 174,355 students who received IB diploma and vocational programme results worldwide on Monday.
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