Staff Reporter :
The students of different schools and colleges in the city on Saturday demonstrated in front of the Jatiya Press Club against the government’s plan to increase the number of “creative questions” in both Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations.
Several hundred students under the banner of “Dhaka Chhatra Samaj” staged a two-hour long sit-in programme from 1pm, which affected traffic movement.
The students have been protesting the government’s decision of increasing the number of questions from six to seven since February, reasoning that it will be difficult for them to do the good result in the examinations unless the time is increased.
Jubayer Rayan Sakif, a 12th grader of Government Science College and spokesperson of the platform, said, “Previously we were asked to answer six questions in two hours and ten minutes. But now we shall have to answer seven questions in two hours and twenty minutes.”
“As our test will commence within a month,” Sakif went on, ” such an abrupt decision is quite unacceptable.”
Earlier around 11am, the students organised a human chain programme at Shahbagh intersection for three hours.
On September 29, police charged baton on the agitating students near the GEC Intersection of Chittagong city.
The students of different schools and colleges in the city on Saturday demonstrated in front of the Jatiya Press Club against the government’s plan to increase the number of “creative questions” in both Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations.
Several hundred students under the banner of “Dhaka Chhatra Samaj” staged a two-hour long sit-in programme from 1pm, which affected traffic movement.
The students have been protesting the government’s decision of increasing the number of questions from six to seven since February, reasoning that it will be difficult for them to do the good result in the examinations unless the time is increased.
Jubayer Rayan Sakif, a 12th grader of Government Science College and spokesperson of the platform, said, “Previously we were asked to answer six questions in two hours and ten minutes. But now we shall have to answer seven questions in two hours and twenty minutes.”
“As our test will commence within a month,” Sakif went on, ” such an abrupt decision is quite unacceptable.”
Earlier around 11am, the students organised a human chain programme at Shahbagh intersection for three hours.
On September 29, police charged baton on the agitating students near the GEC Intersection of Chittagong city.
