One thousand, three hundred and seventy students among about 80,000 who sought a review of their Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent examinations results published on August 3 have now come out successful. The inter-education board coordination subcommittee chief, Taslima Begum, also the chairperson of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka, told New Age that the reviewed results were published on Tuesday night and would be put on web sites on Wednesday.
She said that 1,370 students had passed the exams in the review and results of the 2167 students were changed.
There are eight general education boards — Dhaka, Rajshahi, Chittagong, Comilla, Jessore, Barisal, Sylhet, Dinajpur — in addition to the technical and the madrassah education board.
Sources said that in the technical education board, 1,111 students had come out successful after the result review, 144 students passed under the Dhaka board, 25 under the Comilla board, 22 under the Chittagong board, 17 under the Jessore board, 12 each under the Rajshahi and Barisal boards, 11 each under Dinajpur and madrassah boards and five under the Sylhet board.
Meanwhile, results of 1,193 students under technical education board, 526 students under Dhaka, 90 under Chittagong, 87 under Jessore, 75 under Rajshahi, 71 under Comilla, 50 under Dinajpur, 23 under Sylhet, 20 under Barisal and three under madrassah boards were changed.
A large number of students this year failed in English which was held under the creative system introduced for the first time.
Seven papers — Bangla second paper, two papers each of chemistry, civics and principles of business — were held with creative questions.
Officials said that creative question type had been introduced to help students to develop their intellectual ability and creative thinking in place of the traditional system which encourages students to memorise.
A total of 10,02,496 students took the HSC and equivalent examinations under eight general education boards, the Technical Education Board and the Madrassah Education Board. A total of 7,44,891 students have passed the examinations.
The combined pass percentage is 74.30 which is 4.37 percentage point lower than the figure of 78.67 in the past year, held under the 10 education boards.
-With New Age input
