One lakh more students will be taking the Secondary School Certificate examinations this year as compared to last year. The exams start today.
A total of 1,29,554 more students will sit for the exams this year, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said at a press briefing yesterday.
Last year the total number of students was 13,03,203, with a total of 14, 32,727 students taking the examinations this year.
Nahid said the number of centres was also increased. There were 2,758 examination centres last year, while it would be 2,942 this year.
The minister said all preparations had been made for holding the examinations successfully.
Mentioning that last year examinees of all public examinations had faced problems due to violent political programmes, Nahid urged the political parties not to announce any such programmes during the examination period this year.
Regarding the question paper leakage in recent public examinations, he said strict measures had been taken and the law enforcement officials were asked to take action if any such things happened.
Except for the Bangla second paper, the English first and second paper and mathematics, all examinations will be held on a creative question system. Students with disabilities will be provided an additional 20 minutes to finish their examinations.
Nahid said results would be published by May 20.