could not take the A and AS of a subject at the same examination. Students could take a maximum of 7 AL and/or AS subjects in one examination, but only a few students actually took 7 subjects from 2004. Applied Mathematics A/AS 1 Biology A 4 Business Studies A Chemistry A/AS 4 Chinese History A/AS Chinese Language and Culture AS Chinese Literature A Computer Applications AS 2 4 Computer Studies A 2 4 Economics A/AS Electronics AS 3 4 Ethics and Religious Studies AS Geography A Government and Public Affairs A/AS History A/AS Liberal Studies AS Literature in English A/AS Mathematics and Statistics AS 1 Physics A/AS 3 4 Principles of Accounts A Psychology A/AS Pure Mathematics A Use of English AS Visual Arts A/AS A/AS Applied Mathematics could not be taken with AS Mathematics and Statistics. AS Computer Applications could not be taken with A Computer Studies. A Pure Mathematics could not be taken with AS Mathematics and Statistics. Practical Subjects could be taken by only school candidates or candidates who had taken that subject in previous HKALE examinations. Past results Sometimes, for some AS-level subjects, less than 0.05% of the candidates could achieve grade A. However, there was always more than 0.05% of candidates achieving grade A in the full A-level counterpart of the subjects concerned. The AS-level syllabus of a certain subject was a selected part of the AL syllabus, but the questions of an AS-level examination were as difficult as the full AL counterpart. AS-level papers shared some of the questions with the AL counterpart and in those questions, the marking schemes for both A-level and the AS-level were identical. 1996 – 2007 HKALE Statistics of candidates' results in Use of English 1996 – 2008 HKALE Statistics of candidates' results in Physics (AS-level) Abolishment The Education Bureau of Hong Kong announced that in 2009, the new schooling structure, under which all students receive 12 years of pre-university education, would be implemented. The HKALE was last administered in 2012 and then merged with the existing Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination, to form the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education examination at the end of the new, three-year senior secondary curriculum. The HKALE in 2013 was available only for students who had taken the exam before and could not be used to fulfil the JUPAS requirement. As an aftermath of the abolishment, sixth form colleges are no