Bangladesh has released the results of the primary school scholarship exam.
A total of 82,383 fifth graders has been selected to receive stipend in two categories for the next three years.
Of them, 33,000 students will receive a talent-pool stipend while general stipend will go to 49,383 students.
State Minister of Primary and Mass Education Md Zakir Hossen announced highlights from the results on Tuesday.
The results are available on the websites of the Directorate of Primary Education () and the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education (), and through the offices of the divisional deputy directors, the offices of the district's primary education officer, and the offices of the upazila and thana education officers.
The quotas for the upazila and thana talent-pool scholarships were set according to the number of students that took part in the examination, the state minister said.
“General scholarships are distributed at the union and municipality level,” he said.
The amount of the stipend has also been increased since 2015.
“Previously, the talent-pool stipend was Tk 200 per month, but this was set at Tk 300 from 2015. The general stipend was Tk 150 a month, but was raised to Tk 225.”
Students were tested on Bangla, English, Mathematics and Science on a scale of 100 marks, with 25 marks allotted for each subject during the two-hour scholarship exam.
A total of 4,83,759 examinees appeared in scholarship examinations.
Primary terminal examinations were not held in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid-19 pandemic. Primary scholarship examamination-2022 was held on December 30 last year.