Hong Kong’s examination authority has stated it’s going to file a report back to police after content material from the continued college entrance assessments was allegedly leaked on a well-liked social media platform in mainland China by a self-proclaimed trainer.
The Hong Kong Examinations and Evaluation Authority was responding on Tuesday to studies {that a} consumer on the favored Instagram-like Xiaohongshu platform had allegedly uploaded the query and reply ebook for this yr’s English-language listening take a look at.
“The [authority] is severely 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 stated. “Whether it is confirmed that an examination personnel has breached the confidentiality settlement, we’ll take acceptable follow-up actions in accordance with the established procedures.”
A Fb web page underneath the identify Edu Lancet on Monday wrote that an account on Xiaohongshu had posted images of the examination questions with a watermark that learn “Ms. Lucy” and a caption saying the invigilation of the examination had been accomplished.
The submit was first uncovered in a DSE discussion board on Dcard, a web based social media platform primarily based in Taiwan, in accordance with the Fb submit.
It stated the query and reply ebook belonged to paper 3 of the English-language take a look at taken on April 13. College students have been required to submit the testing supplies and have been banned from taking them after the examination was over.
The Fb submit stated it may contain misappropriation of examination supplies by invigilators, and somebody from Dcard had filed a grievance to the authority.
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A screenshot of the Xiaohongshu account included within the submit confirmed the consumer 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 consumer on Xiaohongshu additionally wrote that he or she was at the moment an educator at a secondary faculty and taught on-line tutorial lessons for college kids newly arrived from the mainland.
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The Put up on Tuesday discovered that each one posts and descriptions had been deleted from the Xiaohongshu account.
The authority stated it had reminded all officers at examination centres they have been prohibited from reposting or posting examination questions in any kind with out approval.
If such acts have been suspected to be unlawful, the authority would go the matter onto legislation enforcement businesses, it added.
