BANGLADESH

Those sitting the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations in 2014 will have to deal with creative questions for 12 subjects.

In the HSC examinations of 2013, questions of Bangla, political science, chemistry and business entrepreneurship will be creative ones, chairman of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka, Fahima Khatun told on Wednesday.

Only Bangla will see creative questions in 2012, she added.

Apart from the four subjects to see creative questions in 2013, questions of physics, biology, accounting, business entrepreneurship and practical management, history, Islamic history, social science and social welfare, will be creative, an education ministry circular issued earlier in the day said.

In 2014, physics and biology students will have to answer creative questions of 40 numbers, multiple choice questions of 35 numbers and practical questions of 25 numbers.

Accounting, business entrepreneurship and practical management, history, Islamic history, social science and social welfare will see creative questions of 40 numbers and multiple choice questions of 60 numbers.