Staff Reporter :
The Education Ministry announced on Wednesday that it would introduce creative questions at Dakhil level in Civics from 2016 and nine other papers in SSC from 2017.
Besides, HSC examinations will have creative questions in Economics, Logic, Information and Communication Technology, Finance, Banking and Insurance, Production Management and Marketing and Geography from 2016.
A meeting chaired by Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid took the decisions, a Ministry sources said.
The madrasha students at Alim level will have creative questions in Economics, Physics, Biology, and Civics and Governance from the same year.
HSC examinations will also have creative questions in Agricultural Studies, Statistics, Psychology, Home Economics, Child Development, Food and Nutrition, Home Management and Family Life, Crafts and Clothes and Islamic Studies.
This year HSC had creative questions in 12 papers and madrasha (Alim) had three. In the SSC and equivalent examinations, there were a total of 29 papers with creative questions.
The government has said that the new format of questions have increased students’ skills and reduced cheating.
The Education Minister said that the creative question system has helped increase
the pass rate. But there has been some criticism about the system being applied to Mathematics and some other subjects.
Creative questions were introduced in HSC from 2012.
Last year the Junior School Certificate (JSC) examinations had creative questions in all papers except Bengali grammar, English and Mathematics. In future, JSC Mathematics will have 60 percent creative questions.
The Primary School Certificate (PSC) examinations this year will have 35 percent creative questions.
The Education Ministry announced on Wednesday that it would introduce creative questions at Dakhil level in Civics from 2016 and nine other papers in SSC from 2017.
Besides, HSC examinations will have creative questions in Economics, Logic, Information and Communication Technology, Finance, Banking and Insurance, Production Management and Marketing and Geography from 2016.
A meeting chaired by Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid took the decisions, a Ministry sources said.
The madrasha students at Alim level will have creative questions in Economics, Physics, Biology, and Civics and Governance from the same year.
HSC examinations will also have creative questions in Agricultural Studies, Statistics, Psychology, Home Economics, Child Development, Food and Nutrition, Home Management and Family Life, Crafts and Clothes and Islamic Studies.
This year HSC had creative questions in 12 papers and madrasha (Alim) had three. In the SSC and equivalent examinations, there were a total of 29 papers with creative questions.
The government has said that the new format of questions have increased students’ skills and reduced cheating.
The Education Minister said that the creative question system has helped increase
the pass rate. But there has been some criticism about the system being applied to Mathematics and some other subjects.
Creative questions were introduced in HSC from 2012.
Last year the Junior School Certificate (JSC) examinations had creative questions in all papers except Bengali grammar, English and Mathematics. In future, JSC Mathematics will have 60 percent creative questions.
The Primary School Certificate (PSC) examinations this year will have 35 percent creative questions.
