A total of 14,32,727 students under 10 educational boards, including one madrassah and one technical boards, on Sunday appeared Secondary School Certificate and its equivalent examinations from 27,489 institutions across the country. The examinations have begun from yesterday in 2942 centres. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid visited Dhanmondi Government Boys’ High School centre in the morning. “All preparations have been taken to hold the examinations in a peaceful manner”, he told reporters after visiting the center.He said necessary measures have been taken to prevent any incident of question paper leakage.He said that the results would be published within 60 days.Nahid also urged the political parties not to enforce any hartal during the examinations.This year the number of total examinees has risen to 1,29,554 from previous year’s 13,03,203.Some 296 students are appearing in the examinations from seven overseas centres.This year, the SSC examinations are being held under creative question papers except Bangla 2nd paper, English 1st and 2nd papers and Mathematics, the Minister said.The examinations were supposed to start on February 2, but the exams have been shifted to February 9 due to Biswa Ijtema.The written examinations will end on March 13 as the practical exams are scheduled to begin on March 16.
