public exam
This is to echo Fun’s subject on "public exam".
Whenever spring comes, I recall the smell of public exams. This is still true even though I did my HKCEE more than 10 years ago. I didn’t do very well in HKCEE. As compared to present standard, I would have no problem in promoting to F.6 anyhow. At that time, I chose to apply another school with a lower repuation but offering the subjects that I liked.
That was not a very good school but I did ok well in my chosen subjects.
People always says that the result in HKCEE is not important. I think so. I think after that many years, none of my employers bothers how many As or Bs or Cs I have gotten in HKCEE. But I still regret of not getting any A in the cert (btw, I got "half A"!!).
I sometimes think that the path would be very different if I took Science instead of Arts (I liked science a lot but my school offered only one science class for F.4 and F.5 where only the very top students can be in it);
It would be very different if I chose universities with a different strategy.
Or, everything would still be the same if the previous steps were different…
Who knows???
