Education Minister Dipu Moni said the SSC and HSC exams will be held with a shorter syllabus this year.
"This syllabus will be shorter, so that it can be covered within three to four months ," she said.
Even though students were prepared to take the HSC exams last year, the government did not hold it considering their safety, the minister said on Monday during an event at the National Academy of Education Management (NAEM) in Dhaka.
"Because the risk from the pandemic is now low, we will hold the exams this year." she added.
The results of the more than 1.3 million students, who were supposed to take the HSC exams last year, will be determined using a stop-gap system of averaging the scores of the JSC and SSC assessments.
Earlier in the day, Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education published a revised syllabus of the SSC and equivalent examinations.
On Sunday, Minister Dipu Moni said that schools will hold regular classes for students of grades 10 and 12 when educational institutions reopen after a prolonged shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Students of other grades will be required to attend one class a week at their institutions, she added.
The government on January 23 instructed secondary level educational institutions to prepare for reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Educational institutions have been closed since March last year due to the pandemic. The government had extended the shutdown of schools a number of times until January 31.
