At Po Leung Kuk Ngan Po Ling College in Hong Kong, Smriti Kedia witnessed her mother burst into tears when her daughter’s near-perfect results in Hong Kong’s university entrance exams came in. “It was just like a big sigh of relief,” said Kedia, who received four 5** grades and two 5* grades, the top two levels of a seven-level scale of the exams. She was among 55,000 students who received their Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) results on Wednesday. Kedia, 18, who moved to Hong Kong from...