07-05-2025
Students in elite Hong Kong secondary school caught cheating in uniform test
Several students from a Hong Kong elite secondary school have been caught cheating in a standardised Chinse History test in late April, with the school vowing to penalising those violating the rules.
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Queen's College in Causeway Bay, the city's oldest government secondary school, said in a circular released on Tuesday that it would not hold the uniform test again and that students of the offenders' class would not have the test result included in their second term assessment.
According to a school internal circular seen by the Post on Wednesday, which was also widely circulated online, principal Eric Chan Cheung-wai told parents that 'several' students were found cheating in a Chinese History uniform test held in late April.
'The school attached great importance to this matter and immediately launched an investigation and met with the students and invigilators involved to understand the details of the incident,' he wrote.
'After investigation, it was confirmed that several students in one class were involved in violations to different extents during the test,' he said.
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'The school will punish students who violate the rules in accordance with the school regulations strictly.'
