Starting from the 2025 HKDSE, new arrangements will be implemented for Category C subjects, under which candidates will have to take the stipulated language examinations administered by the official organisations. For the 2026 HKDSE and beyond, Urdu Language will be included again as a Category C subject. Please refer to the press release, HKDSE blog and relevant webpage for details.

Candidates and parents are welcome to join the HKDSE Online Information Seminar to learn more about the latest development of the HKDSE. Visit the event page and HKDSE blog for details and registration.

Registration for the 2024 HKDSE Categories A and B subjects has been accepted from 11 September to 5 October. Read the registration webpage, school circular, press release and HKDSE blog for details.

The HKDSE Diagnostic Feedback System (DFS), developed by the HKEAA integrates the multiple-choice question banks of various HKDSE subjects. Teachers can compile examination papers by selecting questions from a particular year, scope of content, level of difficulty, etc. for assessment of students, and obtain diagnostic reports, which include expected grades and key knowledge points and hints written by subject experts on questions that students answered incorrectly. Please click here for details on the DFS and school subscription.

An interim resumption arrangement will be implemented for the 2024 HKDSE, in which the public examination and School-based Assessment (SBA) requirements of 19 elective subjects will be adjusted. Please refer to the press release, school circular and the revised Assessment Frameworks and SBA Teachers' Handbooks for details.