You must enroll in the course CAES1000 in either the first or second semester of your first year of study if you have attained Level 3 or Level 4 in English Language in the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination (HKDSE) (or equivalent) in the same year in which you are admitted to the University*. 

CAES1000 course is optional for students who achieved Level 5 or above in English Language in HKDSE (or equivalent) in the same year in which students are admitted to the University. All students are welcome to sign up for a CAES1000 class. However, if you have not attained the abovementioned qualifications, you MUST sign up for a CAES1000 class during the course enrollment period (i.e. 20 – 26 August 2024).

All students CAN sign up for a CAES1000 class. 

Each CAES1000 class has a quota of 20 and the Student Information System (SIS) approves students’ enrollment requests by auto-balloting. Thus, there is no guarantee that you will be allowed to enrol in the class you have selected. Please check your course selection results periodically. If you fail to enrol in your selected group, please choose another timeslot until you can enrol in a class successfully. The SIS system will automatically assign a class in either the first or second semester at the end of the course enrolment period to those students who have attained Level 3 or Level 4 in HKDSE English Language, or equivalent AND have NOT yet signed up for a CUE class.

Students can add or drop a class of CAES1000 freely during the 2-week add/drop period (i.e. the add/drop period for courses of undergraduate programmes is between 2 September 2024 and 16 September 2024). The SIS system will assign a class to those required students without CAES1000 enrollment (i.e. students who achieved HKDSE English Language Level 3 and 4, or equivalent) after the add/drop period.

Please refer to the course website https://learning.hku.hk/caes1000 for the detailed enrolment guidelines and watch the course video https://youtu.be/QXizhlJgllc (also available in the course website) to hear past CUE students talking about how the course benefitted themselves.

You can find out more about the Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES) via this link: https://caes.hku.hk/.

*Faculties will input into the system the list of students for whom CUE is optional, and this information will be shown on the students’ degree audit report starting from 16 August 2024. (Navigation path: HKU Portal > SIS Menu > Academic Records > My Degree Audit).

If you have attained Level 5 or above in English Language in HKDSE (or equivalent) but your degree audit report does not show that CUE is optional, please contact your Faculty.