The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations of 2018 will begin across the country today.
This year, 20, 31, 899 students, including 10, 23,212 boys and 10, 08,687 girls, are expected to sit for the examinations from 8,5,51 institutions under 3412 centres, said, said Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid at a press briefing at the Secretariat on Tuesday. Of them, 16,03,078 students will sit for the SSC examination under eight general education boards, while 2,89,772 for Dakhil exam under the Madrasah Education Board and 1,14,779 for vocational exam under the Bangladesh Technical Education Board.
The number of total examinees has risen to 2,45,286 from previous year’s 17,82,613.
A total of 458 students will sit for the examinations from eight overseas centres as well. The written examinations will continue until February 25 while the practical examinations will be held from February 26 to March 4. The Minister said teachers and others will be barred from carrying smartphones inside the exam centres. Only exam centre secretary would be allowed to carry a feature mobile phone.
The restriction has been imposed as there were instances of taking pictures of question papers by some unscrupulous teacher and sending those to others through smartphones for unfair gains.
The government also stopped the activities of the coaching centers three days ahead of the beginning of the examinations and will keep those closed until the exams end. Actions will be taken if any coaching center is found open. Steps have been taken to prevent question paper leak, spreading rumor over question paper leak and circulating questions through Facebook, said the Minister. The examinees have to enter their respective exam halls at least 30 minutes before the exams begin, no excuse will be accepted in this regard, said the Minister.
