The admission committee of Dhaka University found two students only eligible for admission in English Department of Dhaka University (DU) as other candidates could not meet the requirements in the Kha unit admission test under Faculty of Arts held last Friday. According to the university rule, a candidate must secure minimum 20 marks in General English and 15 in Elective English. But the DU administration got only two candidates to have secured minimum marks.
In view of this, the university authorities decided on Thursday to soften the conditions. The English Department has already sent a letter to the admission committee of Arts Faculty to soften the conditions.
English Department Chairperson Professor Tahmina Ahmed said they would take decision as early as possible.
The department will enroll 150 students as new students. Of them, 125 will be taken from those who sat for ‘Kha’ unit tests under the Arts Faculty.
Remainder 25 will be taken from among those who will sit in the ‘Gha’ unit test today (Friday).
Experts say only two passed under the newly set requirements for the English Department. The situation has worried university authorities, who are now thinking of suspending the department’s entry requirements. “We won’t leave even a single seat empty,” ‘Kha’ unit test Coordinator and Arts Faculty Dean Professor Sadrul Amin told The New Nation. “But we will decide later how to proceed,”
Students seeking to enter the premier public university’s English Department need a combined score of 200 in English in SSC and HSC examinations. They must answer compulsory ‘Elective English’ questions in the admission test.
The results of Kha unit tests held on Sept 19 were released on Tuesday evening. Only 3,874 out of 40,565 passed for 2,221,seats.
