Final year students of seven colleges demand special exam

Students from seven government colleges affiliated with Dhaka University (DU) staged a four-hour long protest on Tuesday at Nilkhet demanding that the authorities scrap the results of a recently-held fourth year examination in which a majority of examinees failed.

Students of 2015-16 academic session blocked Nilkhet intersection from 1:00pm to 4:00pm halting traffic movement in the area. Later, demonstrators dispersed after police arrived at the scene.

The students termed the results of the examination as "disastrous" because of the mass failures in English. In the protest, students chanted slogans demanding a special examination and publishing the results of this exam as quickly as possible.

Al-Amin, a student of Dhaka College, told UNB that they met Ik Salimullah, principal of Dhaka College and the coordinator of the seven colleges earlier in the day but he did not listen to their demand.