The education ministry says it has identified four reasons behind a significant drop in the number of students taking this year’s HSC and equivalent examinations.
Published : 30 Mar 2015, 09:30 PM
Altogether 1,073, 884 students will take the tests that are starting from Apr 1 amid anti-government agitations sponsored by the BNP and its allies.
The number was 67,490 students more last year.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Monday told reporters that this year’s HSC examinees were from the first batch of students who took the JSC exams.
“This could be one of the reasons,” he said.
“The creative questioning can also have led to the decrease, but we’ll look into it. Also the number has gone down due to irregular examinees dropping out .”
Nahid said the number of irregular students had increased last year as many students had failed the HSC tests in 2013.