Countrywide Junior Terminal Exam for Class VIII from this year
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Countrywide Junior Terminal Examination (JTE) for Class-VIII students will be held simultaneously across the country with same question paper from this year, reports UNB.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid came up with the disclosure at a press briefing at his office Monday, after holding the maiden Primary Terminal Examination at the end of last academic session.
Annual examination in class VIII and junior scholarship examination will be merged into the class- VIII Terminal Examination through introducing the new public exam at the secondary school level.
Under the new examination system, scholarships will be given based on the results of the students in their terminal exams.
The students will be enrolled in class IX on the basis of certificates of the terminal examinations.
Earlier, the first Primary Education Terminal Examination for the students of class V was held on November 21 to November 24.
Addressing the briefing, the minister said that the government was trying to improve the standard of education in the country through taking various steps.
He said that the government had scraped its earlier decision to hold the mathematics exam of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) course under the new creative-question method from 2011.
Nahid also said that this year only Bangla and Religion exams of the SSC course would be held in the new creative-question method. The exams in three more subjects will be held under the method from next year.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid came up with the disclosure at a press briefing at his office Monday, after holding the maiden Primary Terminal Examination at the end of last academic session.
Annual examination in class VIII and junior scholarship examination will be merged into the class- VIII Terminal Examination through introducing the new public exam at the secondary school level.
Under the new examination system, scholarships will be given based on the results of the students in their terminal exams.
The students will be enrolled in class IX on the basis of certificates of the terminal examinations.
Earlier, the first Primary Education Terminal Examination for the students of class V was held on November 21 to November 24.
Addressing the briefing, the minister said that the government was trying to improve the standard of education in the country through taking various steps.
He said that the government had scraped its earlier decision to hold the mathematics exam of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) course under the new creative-question method from 2011.
Nahid also said that this year only Bangla and Religion exams of the SSC course would be held in the new creative-question method. The exams in three more subjects will be held under the method from next year.