HSC, equivalent exams begin Sunday

Bangladesh will hold Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations across the country from Sunday.

According to officials, the total number of candidates under 11 education boards- nine general education boards, one madrasa and one technical board- is 12, 03,407 the current academic year. 

There are 6, 22,796 are male and 5,80,611 are female candidates this year. The examinations will take place at 2,649 centres while the exams will end on December 13.

The number of examinees was 13,99,690 last year while the number of examinees this year declined by 1,96,283 compared to that of last year.

Earlier on October 19, in a press conference, Dr Dipu Moni said, "We think that the total number of examinees has decreased mainly due to the decrease of irregular examinees as the number of irregular examinees in 2020 was 2, 66,501. Last year the irregular candidates were more than 1, 14,000. But this year that number is over 53,000".