OP. Possible. My point in posting here is that despite my background and exposure (and I don't think many fellow farmers could match that), I still got a default CEP.

With NEA's entrenched system of reserving a quota of CEPs and performance grades for scholars, I doubt any fellow farmers can get rewarded better. Classic example of using the wrong initiative (reserving CEPs and KPIs for scholars) to bump up the scholar retention rate, instead of actually focusing on solving the root cause of why the *good* scholars are quitting.

But at the end of the day, management only looks at overall statistics, while the public complains about why the public service is deteriorating day by day - because the good scholars are leaving, and the bad ones are staying. After all, with the good scholars gone, the bad ones will take over their share of high CEPs and performance grades.