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English

1. top-notch (colloquial)
2. to pick out top performers for additional training
3. to push oneself to the front
4. Early Admissions Scheme (EAS), a scheme in which students with outstanding results in HKCEE (a public exam for high school students held until 2011) can be admitted to university without taking the HKALE (a matriculation exam)

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 選拔尖子（最叻嘅人），揾啲最叻嘅人加以訓練
2. 喺香港教育制度下，參加大學教育資助委員會喺2001至2011年間設立嘅中六優先取錄計劃（俗稱「拔尖計劃」），會考成績優秀嘅學生可以跳過高級程度會考直接入大學

Examples

• 拔尖補底

  to provide intensive training to top performers and remedial classes to the bottom; literally, to pull up the top and salvage the bottom ----

• 我當年差一分就拔到尖。

  I was one mark short for Early Admissions Scheme.

• 好多人覺得拔尖可以慳返一年時間同學費，但都有幾位尖子甘願放棄拔尖，選擇考埋高考再去外國升學。

  Many people think that EAS saves them money and a year of time. But there are a few who didn't admit via EAS, but sat in HKALE and further studied abroad.