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Pain Point
Many working Hong Kongers enrolling in part-time master's programmes at local universities, lacking transparent information on grading systems, mistakenly pick courses that grade on a curve and end up at a severe disadvantage against full-time mainland students — readily risking over a hundred thousand dollars in tuition going down the drain. Grading systems, the proportion of part-time students and coursework difficulty vary enormously between institutions and programmes, yet there is no systematic comparison aimed at working people, leaving consumers to crowdsource predecessors' experiences from discussion platforms.
Some institutions force the curve such that a GPA of 2.5 is required to graduate, so a paper mark of 70 can still land in the C range, and working people cannot predict at all whether they will graduate smoothly. There is a clear opening to build a comparison platform for local master's grading systems or an in-work further-study advisory service, helping Hong Kong users make an informed choice before enrolling.
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