The results of this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate and its equivalent examinations would be published on August 9, says the education minister.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid made the announcement during a discussion with reporters at the Secretariat yesterday afternoon.
Education minister along with the chairmen of all education boards will hand over a copy of the results to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office on the day.
The results will be available in the colleges and boards even on cell phones through SMS. Besides, the HSC candidates can find their results on www.educationboardresults.gov.bd.
A total of 1,073,884 students from 8,305 educational institutions under 10 boards, including one madrasa and another technical board, were enrolled to appear the examinations this year.
Some 10,196 students skipped the exam on the first day. Besides, about 700 candidates were expelled for adopting unfair means in the examinations. Of them, 570,993 students are boys and 502,891 are girls.
The examinations were held at 2,419 centres across the country.
However, the number of examinees has seen a decline of 67,490 than 1,141,374 of last year.
