The exams authority is considering the unorthodox move of allowing students to view their own question papers once they have been marked, the board's outgoing secretary-general has revealed.
Peter Hill, who retired yesterday, said the introduction of on-screen marking for all subjects in the first round of the new diploma in 2012 would mean the authority would have the capacity for the first time to give students access to digital versions of marked scripts.
"We are looking at introducing this for the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education," Dr Hill said, referring to the new set of exams due to be sat by students in Form Two.
But he also had a warning: "People might go to a professor and say, `Mark my paper. Did I get an A?' " he said. "You know that some of that is going to happen, but we need to have confidence that our markers are well-trained: they are following marking guides that external people don't have access to; they are being monitored on a regular basis; and the reliability of marking is very high."
However, he said there was no question of giving candidates hard copies or allowing them to access the files online.
"It would be in a designated place at designated times," he said, adding the authority would probably allow students to view the papers at one of the new regional on-screen marking centres, accompanied by an adult.
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