HSC results within 15 to 17 October

The results of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations of this year that stopped midway are likely to be published any day between 15 and 17 October.

The education boards have sent proposals to the government to publish the results on any of these three days.

Mentioning about this proposal, chairman of Dhaka Education Board and president of Inter-Education Board Coordination Committee Tapan Kumar Sarker told Prothom Alo that they are expecting to have a date for publication of the results soon.

It had already been decided that the results of HSC and equivalent examinations stopped midway would be calculated based on subject mapping.

On this matter, Inter-Education Board Coordination Committee president Tapan Kumar Sarker had told Prothom Alo that the results of the subjects, exams of which had already been held would be published after evaluating the answer sheets.

And, the results of the subjects, exams of which could not be held will be published through subject mapping, based on their SSC and equivalent exam results, he had added.

When the HSC examinees barged into the secretariat last august with a demonstration and lay seize there, the directorate of education was forced to cancel the suspended HSC and equivalent examinations of this year.

The HSC and equivalent examinations had started on 30 June this year with a total of about 1.45 million (14.5 lakh) examinees. After the examinations of seven subjects were held, the movement demanding reforms of the quota system in government jobs spread everywhere.

Under this condition, the examinations were suspended several times. Till then, examinations of six subjects were left to be hold. Besides, the practical examinations were left too.

At one point the quota reform movement turned into a one-point demand of government’s ouster. In the face of student-people mass uprising, the Hasina government fell on 5 August. Later it was decided that the exams will be held according to new schedule from 11 August.

However, that did not happen. And according to sources of the education board the reason was that the boxes of question paper kept at the police stations were damaged from the attacks on police station in different areas on the day Awami League government fell.   

In this condition, it was decided to hold the examinations from 11 September instead of 11 August. However, many of the examinees started a protest.

They claimed that the matter of the examinations being suspended for an indefinite period in the situation that had arisen has put them under mental stress. So they demanded for the remaining exams to be cancelled. At one point the suspended exams were canceled in the face of demonstration.