This year's Secondary School Certificate and equivalent exams began across the country today – strictly maintaining health rules at the centres. The examination started at 10 a.m. after over a nine-month delay due to the Covid-19 situation.
SSC exams are usually held in February.
Today, students sat for physics exam. Exams for science, humanities and business groups will be held on separate days. They will not have to sit for tests in compulsory subjects like Bangla, English and Mathematics.
The results of the three optional subjects and the grade point average of the students' previous public exams, including Junior School Certificate tests, will be taken into consideration in the final results.
The exam duration for each paper will be one and a half hours and there will be no break between MCQ and written tests.
Education Minister Dr. Dipu Moni at a press conference on Oct 27 said the results will be published within 30 days after the exams end on Nov 23.
A total of 22,27,113 students are expected to take part in this SSC exams.
Students from 29,035 schools, madrasas and technical institutions are sitting for the exams at 3,679 centres across the country. Around 18,00,998 students are participating in SSC exams under nine general education boards, local media reported.
