Hong Kong’s examination authority has mentioned it is going to file a report back to police after content material from the continued college entrance assessments was allegedly leaked on a preferred social media platform on mainland China by a self-proclaimed instructor.
The Hong Kong Examinations and Evaluation Authority was responding on Tuesday to experiences {that a} person on the favored Instagram-like Xiaohongshu platform had allegedly uploaded the query and reply guide for this yr’s English-language listening take a look at.
“The [authority] is critically following up with circumstances of individuals reposting or posting the content material of examination questions on the web and can report them to the police,” its spokesman mentioned. “Whether it is confirmed that an examination personnel has breached the confidentiality settlement, we’ll take applicable follow-up actions in accordance with the established procedures.”
A Fb web page below the identify Edu Lancet on Monday wrote that an account on Xiaohongshu had posted photographs of the examination questions with a watermark that learn “Ms. Lucy” and a caption saying the invigilation of the examination had been accomplished.
The publish was first uncovered in a DSE discussion board on Dcard, a web based social media platform based mostly in Taiwan, based on the Fb publish.
It mentioned the query and reply guide belonged to paper 3 of the English-language take a look at taken on April 13. College students had been required to submit the testing supplies and had been banned from taking them after the examination was over.
The Fb publish mentioned it may contain misappropriation of examination supplies by invigilators, and somebody from Dcard had filed a criticism to the authority.
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A screenshot of the Xiaohongshu account included within the publish confirmed the person claimed they arrived in Hong Kong throughout secondary faculty and held a bachelor’s diploma from Hong Kong Shue Yan College and a grasp’s diploma from the College of Hong Kong.
The person on Xiaohongshu additionally wrote that he or she was presently an educator at a secondary faculty and taught on-line tutorial courses for college students newly arrived from the mainland.
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The Publish on Tuesday discovered that each one posts and descriptions had been deleted from the Xiaohongshu account.
The authority mentioned it had reminded all officers at examination centres they had been prohibited from reposting or posting examination questions in any type with out approval.
If such acts had been suspected to be unlawful, the authority would move the matter onto regulation enforcement businesses, it added.
