High School of Mathematics & Sciences

Students should normally enter our high secondary school in the calendar year in which they turn 15, following the successful completion of the school’s basic class or an equivalent class duly certified by an officially accredited school.

The three years of upper secondary education are organized in the following way: for the first year,  our students are to follow a generally common curriculum, completing the nine qualifications of our pre-orientation years. Most subjects are to be  taught in English, although our students should have already begun two additional modern languages (for example, Chinese and Arabic). In Secondary 10, all students are to study Visual Arts and Physical Education & Health in their first language additional to English. In this pre-orientation year, our compulsory science has been subdivided into physics, chemistry, and biology. All required credits are awarded for achieving standards, rather than for time spent pleasing teachers.

Lessons are based on internationally harmonized curricula, and organized according to the following weekly lesson plan in Secondary 10:

Field	Subject	Lessons	Teaching language
Mathematics & Sciences	Precalculus1	5	English
	Physics 21	3	English
	Chemistry1	3	English
	Biology	2	English
	Design & Technology	2	English
Languages & Arts	English1	4	English
	Chinese1	4	Chinese
	Arabic	3	Arabic
	Visual Arts	2	Chinese
Social Humanities & Sciences	U.S. History	2	English
	Social Studies	2	English
	Religious Ethics	1	English
General Education	Physical Ed & Health	2	Chinese
	Total	35

 ¹ These subjects are specializations of our high school, and are major subjects for this year: extra homework in them is compulsory, while homework is to be minimized by teachers of all other subjects.