M M Jasim :
The Education Minister has failed to check question paper leakage as every question paper of the first five examinations of the ongoing Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations have been leaked.
Following media reports on the leakage, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid declared a Tk 5 lakh reward to help catch those involved in question paper leakage. His Ministry also formed a committee to decide the next course of action.
However, the question paper leakage continued.
The Minister had earlier told journalists that examinations would be cancelled as soon as the leakages were proved.
Although the Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid did not make any comment over the ongoing SSC examinations. The State Minister for Technical and Madrasa Education of Education Ministry Kazi Keramat Ali also denied the allegation.
Yesterday was the mathematics examination. The question papers with answer sheets were leaked on Facebook about one and a half hours prior to the examination.
Images of the multiple choice questions and answers in the math ‘Kha’ questions were released on Facebook around 8:35am on Saturday.
Even though the leakers sell question papers the day before the exam, they give it away for free in groups on Facebook and Whatsapp hours before the test.
“If you want to get the math question paper before everyone else, be with us,” reads a status in a group on Facebook called, PSC JSC SSC HSC Degree Honours Masters Admission Test BCS Job Question Out.
Such posts have been doing the rounds on Facebook since the beginning of the SSC examinations earlier this month.
A good number of people from different parts of the country communicated with the leakers and got the questions, it was alleged.
Meanwhile, the guardians in Jessore and Rajshahi districts detained and handed over two college students to the police after they showed “apparently leaked” SSC questions on their mobile phones.
Bowalia Police Station OC Aman Ullah and Jessore Education Board Examination Controller Madhab Chandra Rudra provided the information.
Detainee Rabeya Islam Riya is a first-year Mathematics Department student at Rajshahi City College, while detainee Moniruzzaman is a postgraduate student at Jessore Government MM College.
“A woman was showing SSC examination questions on her mobile phone to students and guardians at the city’s PN Girl’s School on Saturday morning,” OC Aman Ullah said. “Some guardians detained her and turned her over to police.”
She is still being questioned, the OC said.
“A young man was showing guardians mathematics questions on his mobile phone in front of the examination centre around 9:45am,” Examination Controller Madhab Chandra Rudra said. “The guardians detained him and handed him over to the police at the examination centre.”
“Moniruzzaman was showing them questions from the ‘Ka’ question set, but Saturday’s exam was on the ‘Kha’ set.”
On the other hand, the police detained an Assistant-Secretary of Mowna Centre in Gazipur district as he came out from the centre with the question papers just after the beginning of the examination.
The detainee has been identified as Amzad Hossain, Alhaj Dhonai Bepari High School.
Secretary of the centre Shahjahan Siraj told The New Nation that the authorities suspended Amzad Hossain immediately.
Meanwhile, Nagarik Chhatra Oikya, student front of Nagorik Oikya, at a discussion at the Jatiya Press Club yesterday said the government had failed to stop the SSC examination questions leakage.
Riazul Islam, Member-Secretary of the platform, read out the statement. Nagarik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna was present at the programme.
“Students are now losing their interest in studies. Instead of educating themselves, they are now learning how to pass exams through immoral means by getting the easily accessible questions,” the statement said.
