DU to relax English deptt admission rules

Dhaka University (DU) will relax the entry requirements for its English Department after spectacularly failing to get eligible students, reports bdnews24.com.

Vice-Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique said the minimum marks for passing compulsory 'Elective English' in 'Kha' and 'Gha' unit tests has been lowered from 15 to 8.

Only two were found eligible to study English in Bangladesh's premier public university under the department's new entry conditions under which candidates must get minimum 30 marks in 'General English and 15 in 'Elective English'.

But the university authorities looking to 'fill every seat' will decide in favour of relaxing its rules on Elective English at a meeting on Oct 18, the vice-chancellor told bdnews24.com.

Those who got minimum 20 marks in 'General English' will be considered. But test takers who did not attempt to answer Elective English will not.  They are still required to have a combined score of 200 in SSC and HCS for English and pass marks in all other sections of the admission test.

Only 17 of the 3,874 who passed 'Kha' unit test held on Sept 19 answered 'Elective English' questions. But only two passed.