Results of this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations will be published tomorrow, Saturday, ending a long wait for more than 1.27 million students across the country who sat the exams.
The results will be announced formally at 11am in the conference room of the Secondary and Higher Education Division of the education ministry. Dr. A.N.M. Ehsanul Haque Milon, minister of education and of primary and mass education, will open the release as chief guest.
Mahdi Amin, the prime minister’s adviser on education and primary and mass education, the secretaries of the ministry’s two divisions, the chairmen of all education boards and ministry and board officials involved in the examinations will attend.
Straight after the opening, candidates will be able to get their results at the same time from their own schools and colleges, from the official websites and by SMS. Online, results can be found by roll and registration number at https://eduboardresults.gov.bd or https://educationboardresults.gov.bd.
Results can also be had at once by sending an SMS in the set format to 16140 from any mobile operator.
The HSC and equivalent exams began on 2 July across the country under the nine general education boards, the Bangladesh Technical Education Board and the Bangladesh Madrasah Education Board. The written exams were due to end on 8 August, but some papers under Chattogram and several other boards were postponed because of natural disasters and flooding and were held later. Practical exams were completed by 15 August.
According to the education ministry, 1,270,583 candidates sat the exams under the 11 boards this year: 621,969 boys and 648,614 girls. That is 26,645 more girls than boys.
Students from 9,439 educational institutions took the exams at 2,697 centres around the country.
This year the nine general education boards set common question papers. A total of 1,069,714 candidates sat the exams under those nine boards.
Meanwhile, the Inter-Education Board said in a press release that applications for re-scrutiny or re-evaluation of answer scripts from students unhappy with their results will open on 1 November. Students can apply online until 7 November. Detailed instructions will be posted on the education boards’ websites.
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