The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent exams for 2024 will be held in February while Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent exams will be held in April, Education Minister Dipu Moni said on Thursday, reports UNB.
"For the past several years, the authorities concerned had to rearrange the academic calendar due to the Covid-19 pandemic and natural disaster, but it will be fully set from next year," she hoped.
The minister came up with the information while talking to reporters after visiting an SSC exam hall at Tejgaon College in the city.
"We will try our level best to hold HSC exams in April and SSC exams in February, from next year," she added.
Dipu Moni claimed that there has been no question paper leak in public exams in the last five years. "We have been on alert to prevent question paper leak since 2015 and I hope there will be no untoward incident during this year's HSC exams."
If anyone try to spread rumours, law enforcing agencies will take stern action against them, she said.
HSC and equivalent exams for 2023 began across the country on Thursday.
Students sat for the Bangla first paper exam on the first day, at 10:00 am.
A total of 13,59, 342 students - 6,88, 887 boys and 6,70,455 girls - are expected to sit for this year's HSC exams, 1,55,935 more than the previous year.
According to the routine, HSC written exams will continue until September 25 while practical exams will be held from September 26 to October 4.
The HSC exams is being held at 2,658 exam centres and 9,169 educational institutions.
Among the total students, 11,08,594 students will appear for HSC under the nine general education boards, 98,031 under the Madrasa board, and 1,52,717 under the Technical Education board.
Meanwhile, Primary and Mass Education Secretary Farid Ahmed has said textbooks of the next academic year will reach upazila level by November as they are committed to delivering books to all children on the first day of the new year.
The minister said this while speaking as the chief guest at a virtual workshop on the 2nd Annual Action Plan of USAID's 'Shobai Miley Shikhi' (Let's learn together) project on Thursday.
For the new academic year, the textbooks of class 2 and 3 have been prepared according to the revised curriculum.
Meanwhile, students of 4th and 5th grade will get new textbooks based on a revised curriculum in the academic year of 2025.
On the "Shobai Miley Shikhi" project, the Mass Education Secretary said,"The key to learning together is that no one will be left out or left behind, everyone will get equal opportunities, and will move forward continuously through collective efforts."
He called for an action plan to develop children to meet the challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Presided over by Additional Director General of the Department of Primary Education Dilip Kumar Banik, the workshop was addressed, among others, by Additional Secretary of Ministry of Primary and Mass Education Mosharraf Hossain, Supervisory Contracting Officer of USAID's Bangladesh mission Andrew Holland, USAID's Director of Education Sonjai Reynolds-Cooper, Director of Department of Primary Education Manish Chakma.
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