More than one lakh students will be taking the Secondary School Certificate examinations this year, compared to last year. The exams start today.
A total of 1,29,554 more students will sit for the exams this year, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said at a press briefing yesterday.
Last year the total number of students were 13,03,203, and this year, a total of 14, 32,727 students are taking the examinations.
Nahid said the number of centres were also increased. There were 2,758 examination centres last year while it would be 2,942 this year.
The minister said all preparations had been made for holding the examinations successfully.
Mentioning that last year examinees of all public examinations had faced problems due to violent political programmes, Nahid urged the political parties not to announce such programmes.
About the question paper leakage in recent public examinations, he said strict measures had been taken and the law enforcement officials asked to take action if any such things happened.
Except for Bangla second paper, English first and second paper and mathematics, all examinations will be held on creative question system. Students with disability will get 20 minutes more to finish their examinations.
Nahid said results would be published by May 20.
Source: UNBConnect