In response to demands from some students to give auto-pass everyone in the HSC examination, Education and Planning Ministry Adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud stated that if all students are given auto-pass, it would significantly undervalue the results of the majority who have genuinely passed.
He told the state news agency BSS on Monday: "I have heard that a small number of students are demanding that everyone should be allowed auto-pass in the upcoming HSC results."
The education adviser remarked that it would have been better if the remaining HSC exams could be conducted this year.
He noted that the authorities had to make an immediate decision to cancel the exams due to an unexpected situation at the Secretariat.
The board authorities have informed the adviser that they were preparing the final results following the previous precedents and taking the results of related SSC subjects into cognizance for those HSC subjects, which exams were cancelled.
The results of those who failed in any subject in SSC and took the opportunity to retake the exam in the next year have also been taken into consideration, Wahiduddin said, adding, therefore, those who will not pass in the final results cannot be said that they have been deprived.
“If all candidates are given auto-pass now it will undermine the results of the majority students who have passed the exams (through hard work). So, I do not see any logical ground for such demand (of giving an auto-pass to all),” he added
The results of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations of 2024 will be published on Tuesday.
This year, the HSC and its equivalent exams began across the country except in Sylhet division on June 30. The exams in Sylhet division started on July 9 as the Ministry of Education deferred the board’s exams due to flooding.
After eight days of the exams, all exams were postponed this year amid unrest centring the quota reform movement and subsequent mass upsurge.
The education ministry had decided to evaluate the students using subject mapping method for other subjects based on the SSC results.
A total of 1,450,790 students from nine general Education Boards, Madrasa Board and Technical Board were expected to sit for the exams from 9,463 educational institutions at 2,275 centres across the country.
