Students seeking to reevaluate their Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations' results can start submitting application from Tuesday.
The SSC examinees who do not get the desired result can challenge the result till December 5.
The information was announced on Monday evening in a notice signed by Dhaka Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board Controller of Examination Md Abul Bashar.
It is said in the notice that applications can be made from Teletalk prepaid mobile phones.
To send a message, examinees have to go to the message option and write RSC followed by the first three letters of the board name, roll number and subject code and send it to 16222.
For example, if the roll number of a candidate of Dhaka Board is 123456 and wants to apply for Bengali First Paper, enter the message option and write RSC Dha 123456 101 and send it to 16222. A PIN number will be given in the return SMS mentioning how much will be deducted for the application, reads the notice.
If the examinee agrees to this, he/she has to go to the message option and write RSC Yes Pin Contrzvt Number (any mobile operator) and send it to 16222.
For review of results, applications for multiple subjects can be made through the same SMS.
“In that case the subject codes should be written separately with commas. For example: For both Bengali and English subjects, go to the message option of the mobile and enter the RSC Dha roll number 101, 102, 107, 108. In this case, a fee of Tk125 has to be paid for each letter.”
There is no need to apply for Bangladesh and World Knowledge/Science, Information and Communication Technology and Religion and Moral Education, reads the notice.
A total of 2,021,868 students from 29,591 educational institutions took part in this year's exams at 3,790 centres. Altogether 1,599,711 students participated in the SSC exams under the nine general education boards. Of them, as many as 269,602 students got GPA 5.
Altogether 87.44% of candidates have obtained passing grades in this year's exams, down from 93.58% the previous year.