A Hong Kong court has remanded a teaching assistant who admitted to leaking university entrance exam questions on a mainland Chinese social media platform to help “pave the way” for the launch of her private tuition business.
Lau Kwan-hei pled guilty to one count of breach of secrecy when she appeared at Eastern Court on Wednesday.
The court heard that the 23-year-old had been an invigilator for the Diploma of Secondary Education’s English listening assessment that took place on April 13.
Invigilators are required to sign a confidentiality agreement with the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority and are only allowed to keep answer books for teaching purposes, as long as they do not publicise them.
Under the username “Miss Lucy”, Lau posted two pages from the exam’s question and answer book on popular Instagram-like Xiaohongshu platform after the assessment, with a caption that asked users “which question did you choose?”
