I attended a briefing session of Cheung Chuk San College (HK East) in 2006. The principal stated the school won't have any 10A students. If you are capable, teacher will advise you to take 8 subjects or less. They focus to educate students to have 100% pass in Chinese, English & Maths, their credits and distinctions rate also very impressive, even more than many Band 1 school's passing rate. Different school has different mission and goals.
If we further review the credit and distinction per student and not the no. of 10A students. DGS is the no. 1 in HK and then SPCC, QC & LCS.
I think the problem of Chinese standard being not as good as English standard is generally seen in many elite secondary schools especially those with English primary school as one through train. The reason is that the students spend less time on studying Chinese. Even SPCC with its own Chinese primary school, the Englsih results of the HKCEE are much better. Of course, I admit that the Chinese standards of those elite schools are above average.
That means, comparing with other elite schools, you think DGS girls don't have sound fundamental knowledge in Chinese language?
I guess their Chinese level is above average generally, but with insufficient practice and reading. I often see DGS girls reading Eng books on MTR but have never seen them reading Chinese ones.
I totally agree. I think that the new Chinese and English syllabus favour the Chinese primary school because the English papers become
easier whereas the Chinese papers require sound fundamental knowledge.
As I understand alot of the famous schools do not encourage taking 10 or more subjects so that's why you can see their names appearing on the newspaper (not becos their results fall behind).