Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations will begin on Sunday and will run through Nov 15.
A total of 1,908,365 students from 27,642 educational institutions will appear in the exams at 2,250 centres across the country. Of them, 1,011,503 are girls and 896,862 boys.
The Education Ministry said this year 47, 252 more students are sitting the tests than last year. A total of 1,861,113 candidates had sat the tests last year.
A press release from the ministry on Saturday said Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid will visit the Dhanmondi Government Boys High School at 10am Sunday.
According to the ministry, a total of 1,553,575 candidates, 826,082 of whom are girls and 727,493 boys, are appearing for the JSC examinations.
The number is 354,790 for JDC tests, with 185,421 of them girls and 169,369 boys.
The number of irregular candidates for JSC exams is 149,392 and JDC 23,292.
JSC has 136,711 special candidates – who failed in up to three subjects last year – and JDC has 20,301 such candidates.
The examinations will also be held at seven centres abroad. A centre in Jeddah has 106 candidates, Riyadh 109, Tripoli eight, Doha 72, Abu Dhabi 39, and two centres in Dubai have 18 and 36 candidates respectively.
Ten candidates from Oman’s capital Muscat will also be taking the examinations for the first time.
Question papers except for Bengali second paper, English first and second papers and mathematics will be based on creativity. Handicapped candidates will be allowed 20 minutes of extra time.
The candidates with sight disability and missing limbs will be allowed a dictation taker.
The results are supposedly to be published by December.
JSC was introduced in the country for the first time in 2010 and JDC in 2011 for eighth-graders.
Source: bdnews24
