SSC, equivalent exams from 15 Sep
Private universities can decide together with the students if party politics should be allowed on their campuses, said the education minister
The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations will begin from 15 September this year.
The examinations will begin at 11am this year instead of 10am, considering the traffic jam, Education Minister Dipu Moni told the press after a meeting with the National Monitoring and Law and Order Committee at the Secretariat.
Coaching centres will remain closed across the country from 12 September to 2 October due to the exams, she said.
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This year, the examinations will be held for two hours – 20 minutes for the MCQ part and 1 hour and 40 minutes for the written part, said the minister.
All examinees have been asked to enter exam halls 30 minutes before the exam starts and no one except the exam secretary will be allowed to carry a cellular phone.
The examinations will end on 18 October.
This year, 2,021,868 students are expected to take the SSC and its equivalent exams; last year the number was 2,243,254. The number of candidates has decreased by 221,386 this year.
About 1,599,711 candidates will sit for the SSC exams under nine general education boards, 268,495 for the Dakhil exam under Madrasa Education Board, and 153,662 for vocational exam under the Bangladesh Technical Education Board, the minister said.
Around 3,790 centres have been prepared for the SSC exams across the country.
Usually, the SSC and its equivalent exams take place in February, but this year they were deferred for about four months due to the Covid-19 pandemic. They were scheduled to start on 19 June, but were postponed on 17 June due to the deteriorating flood situation in Sylhet and Sunamganj districts.
