HSC Exam Begins: Guidelines to Be Followed: The HSC and equivalent examinations for the current year will begin on Sunday (June 30).
In order to prevent question leaks and ensure a fair and beautiful examination in a copy-free environment in the upcoming HSC examination, Education Minister Mahibul Hasan Chowdhury has announced that all coaching centers will be closed from June 29 to August 11.
A total of 14 lakh 50 thousand 790 students are appearing in the HSC/Alim/HSC (BM/BMT), HSC (Vocational) Diploma-in Commerce examinations of the nine general education boards, technical education boards and madrasah education boards this year. Of these, 7 lakh 50 thousand 281 are boys and 7 lakh 509 are girls. There are a total of 2,725 examination centers and 9,463 educational institutions this time.
The Ministry of Education has issued some instructions to ensure the smooth conduct of the examinations.
- Examinees must enter the examination hall at least 30 minutes before the start of the examination. If any examinee is allowed to enter after this for any reason, his/her name, roll number, time of entry, reason for delay should be recorded in the register and reported to the respective education board on the same day.
- Examinees will be allowed to use ordinary scientific calculators in the examination. Programmable calculators will not be allowed.
- No one other than the officer-in-charge of the examination center will be allowed to use a mobile phone and no examinee will be allowed to bring a mobile phone to the examination center.
- The question paper set code will be informed to the concerned people through SMS 25 minutes before the start of the examination. No one other than the officer-in-charge will be allowed to enter the center with a mobile phone or electronic device. Only the officer-in-charge will be allowed to use a mobile phone (mobile phone that cannot take pictures).
- No one other than the examination related person (such as examinee, invigilator, ministry’s center inspection team, board’s center inspection team, district administration and upazila administration inspection team, members of the law enforcement agency responsible for security) will be allowed to enter the center.
- The Ministry of Education has made some special arrangements for specially abled (differently abled) examinees. Among them, visually impaired, cerebral palsy disabled and those who do not have hands can take the examination with a scribe (listener). An additional 20 minutes has been given for such examinees and hearing impaired examinees.
- The government has kept the opportunity for the disabled (autistic, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy) examinees to take the examination with the special assistance of teachers, guardians or helpers by increasing the time by an additional 30 minutes.