1. Do you wish to be on the email mailing list?
me this week at and I will add you to the list.
Then, you will receive all future messages to your son from the Careers Team.

2. Points to Note for DSE Students
JUPAS & other Important Dates
E-APP Dates
Choosing 20 JUPAS Programs
HKDSE Results –12 July, 2017
Modification of JUPAS Choices
Options after 12 July and 7 Aug

3. Important Dates
31 Oct – 4 Nov – Small Group Counseling Sessions, Careers Awareness Week (SYN)
Early Nov – Form 6 Further Studies Guide by Hok Yau Club
Before 1 Dec – Register for a JUPAS account, pay $420, and submit 20 JUPAS choices
Before Christmas – complete the rest of the JUPAS application (OEA, SLP, other Academic Results, Music Qualifications, etc.) Official deadline – in January and April

4. Important Dates
End of Dec onwards– JUPAS statistics platform by HKACMGM available in the school library
2 Dec – 23 May – Update JUPAS program choices ($80 per submission)
13 June onwards – Check allocated time slot for modifying of JUPAS choices (13 –15 July)
Before & after 12 July – Admission interviews
Early July – Prospect Guide by Hok Yau Club
Before 12 July – Pre-DSE Result Release Talk
12 July – Release of HKDSE results

5. Important Dates 13-15 July – Modification of JUPAS choices
12 – 16 July (tentative) – Recheck / remark HKDSE results
7 Aug – JUPAS main round offers
By 5pm, 8 Aug – Pay acceptance fee ($5,000) for offer & complete registration with institution by date specified by institution
9? Aug – Results of rechecking and remarking of DSE results
10 Aug (9am-6pm) – Apply for reconsideration of an offer or a better offer

6. Important Dates
17 Aug – Offer results after reconsideration of applications based on upgraded DSE results and paying the acceptance fee
21 Aug – Clearing round offer and paying the acceptance fee to confirm the offer
24 Aug – Subsequent round offer and paying the acceptance fee to confirm the offer

7. E-APP Early Dec to mid May – Main round application
Mid May – late June – Second round application
Before 12 July – Interviews and conditional offers
By noon 17 July (tentative) – Enrolment deposit (around $5,000)

8. Choosing 20 JUPAS Programs
Process of Elimination
Not taking the compulsory subjects
No interest (read Short Description) at all (would rather do an Associate Degree or Higher Diploma program)
Impossible to get in (even at your best, you are still very far from the lower quartile or the lowest mark last year.)

9. Choosing 20 JUPAS Programs
What Programs to Include
Very interested (read Short Description)
At least two broad types of programs (e.g. engineering and science, business and engineering, business and social science, social science and education, etc.)
Programs of a range of admission scores (e.g. some “dream” programs, mostly “realistic” programs, some “safe” programs)

10. Choosing 20 JUPAS Programs
Other points to note
Don’t just choose HKU, CU, UST
Don’t just apply through JUPAS. Apply through E-APP and get a couple of conditional offers before 12 July.
Don’t just consider Hong Kong. Every year, some SPC students do not get a JUPAS offer.

11. Choosing 20 JUPAS Programs
Other points to note
Selection Formula (e.g. 4C + 1X or 2X, Best 5, same formula last year and this year?)
Subject Weighting (e.g. English x 2, Mathematics x 1.5, same weighting last year and this year?)
M1/M2 used as an elective?

12. Wednesday, 12 July, 2017
8:30 – 9:00 am – Announcements and Briefing in the School Hall (Parents and Students)
9:00 am -- Distribution of HKDSE Result Slips in F.4 Classrooms (e.g. 6A in 4A)

13. Wednesday, 12 July, 2015 General advice – Form teachers
Modification of JUPAS choices – Mr. Alex Wong, Ms Solly Ngan, Mr. John Ng, Mr. Albert Yip, and other careers teachers
Overseas pathways – Mr. Ryan
Recheck /remark DSE exams – Mr. Eric Chow
Counseling – Social workers and Ms. Louisa Yu
Experience sharing – last year’s graduates and alumni
Counseling hotlines – Hok Yau Club & HKFYG

14. Options after 12 July, 2017
Walk-in Application and Interview in after the DSE result release day on 13 July, 2016
By 7 July PolyU CC
13 – 15 July EdUHK
13 – 15 July HKU SPACE
13 – 23 July Shue Yan
8 – 9 Aug CityU CC
8 – 13 Aug Tung Wah

15. Options after 7 Aug, 2017 Overseas Higher Education in 2016
13 July IDP 教育海外升學博覽
13 – 14 July Amber Education
16 – 17 July British Council
17 July Canada Education Exhibition

16. Questions to ask yourself
Do you know where your interest lies?
Do you know your strengths and weaknesses?
Do you know enough about the study programs you are choosing?
Do you know which programs’ selection criteria and subject weighting are in your favor?
Do you have a plan B?

17. Useful Websites JUPAS http://www.jupas.edu.hk/en/
E-APP
Hok Yau Club
Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups
Job Dictionary
Hong Kong Association of Careers Master and Guidance Masters Limited

18. Useful Apps

19. Thank you and good luck

20. Q & A