One of the most obvious flaws in the recent system is the school assessments which builds up great pressure among students and contradicts with the final purpose of the HKEAA education reform—to relieve pressure from our fellows. The HKDsE requires continue assessments of which starts from form 4. Throughout the high school period, senior students have to endure pressure from both assessments and the preparations for the public exam. Only by imaging we are both eating and talking at the same time could we understand how ridiculous the situation is, not to count the high study hours and dummy homework workload. The problem of the current system is that the add up effect of school assessments may haunt you for years. By adding up the mistakes a person make throughout high school years, one could lose many marks in the examination. If you don’t like your job, you can quite. But high school students can’t, they have to face their nightmare every day and there are no ways to escape.
Another issue that worth to discuss is the examination itself which requires format and that contradicts with the purpose to make students become more creative. The HKEAA obviously require students to learn format in order to gain high marks. This point of view is evidenced by the uploaded student performance pdf on the EAA website, which shows exemplar of different levels of which at the same time, shows that higher level