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Certificate may refer to:

• Birth certificate
• Marriage certificate
• Death certificate
• Gift certificate. A gift card， also known as gift certificate in North America, or gift voucher or gift token in the UK is a prepaid stored-value money card, usually issued by a retailer or bank, to be used as an alternative to cash for purchases within a particular store or related businesses
• Certificate of authenticity, a document or seal certifying the authenticity of something
• Certificate of deposit, or CD, a financial product commonly offered to consumers by banks, thrift institutions and credit unions

Computing

• Authorization certificate or attribute certificate
• Public key certificate, an electronic document used in cryptography

Academic qualification

• Academic certificate
• Medical certificate
• Professional certification, a vocational award
• A confirmation that a person has passed a Test (assessment) to prove competence
• Global Assessment Certificate is a university preparation and foundation studies program
• Graduate certificate

The Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination (HKCEE, 香港中學會考) was a standardised examination between 1974 and 2011 after most local students' five-year secondary education, conducted by the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA), awarding the Hong Kong Certificate of Education secondary school leaving qualification. The examination has been discontinued in 2012 and its roles are now replaced by the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education as part of educational reforms in Hong Kong. It was considered as the equivalent of the GCSE in the United Kingdom.

Students usually took the HKCEE at the end of their five-year period of secondary school in Hong Kong; it was compulsory for students who wanted to pursue further education, but some students took individual examinations to increase their chance of continuing their study or to fulfil certain requirements in tertiary education programs. The final year in which school candidates were accepted was 2010. There were 127,162 candidates entered for the examination, 90,063 of them school candidates and 37,099 private candidates.

学生数:人口似乎很高。转载下面链接仅试图寻找原因，不代表赞同其观点。

香港高房价的背后，赴香港留学的内地学生人数创新高

小说《荆棘鸟》…… 想起《老友记》里的一个情节/台词：这是改变我人生观的书/电影——让我意识到生命中的n小时就这么被浪费了。