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The Secondary School Certificate and its equivalent Dakhil and vocational examinations began across Bangladesh on Sunday amid health risks centring the Covid-19.
Generally, the examinations are held in February each year, but the Covid-19 pandemic brought changes to the schedule this year.
Spot visits to dozens of examination centres across the capital found examinees are maintaining health guidelines as they wore masks and brought hand sanitisers along with their pens and admit cards.
Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni after visiting an examination centre in the capital’s Motijheel said though examinees attended maintaining health guidelines many guardians gathered outside the examination halls flouting health guidelines.
The minister confidently said that there was no possibility of leak out of question papers but a vested quarter is still active to spread rumours.
“Anyone trying to spread rumours will face exemplary punishment,” she said.
The minister again said the results would be published in 30 days after the examinations.
Dipu Moni said a total of 22,43,254 examinees from 29,035 educational institutions are appearing in the largest public examination. This year the highest 12,07,066 female examinees are taking the exams while the number of male examinees is 10,36,188.
Of the examinees, 3,01,887 are appearing in Dakhil examinations under Madrasah Education Board, and 1,24,228 are appearing in SSC (Vocational) under the Technical Education Board and the rest are under the nine general education boards.
The examinations are being held at 3,679 centres across the country. Besides, 429 examinees are taking the examinations from abroad.
On the first day, the examination for the paper of physics was held in the morning shift as the public examinations are held in two shifts. The examinations will end on November 23.
An uncertainty over holding the examinations was created for the prolonged closure of educational institutions since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.
With the improvement in the Covid-19 situation, the government finally reopened educational institutions on September 13.
On September 27, it announced plans to hold the SSC and Higher Secondary Certificate examinations with shortened syllabuses.
