BANGLADESH

Results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations will be published on May 7.

Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid said on Sunday that a copy of the results would be handed over to prime minister Sheikh Hasina at 10am on May 7. "Formally the results will be published through a press conference at the ministry at 1am," he added

The examinees would be able to collect their results after the press meet, Nahid added.

An estimated 1,420,057 students of 26,855 educational institutions under eight general education boards, Dakhil and vocational boards sat for the SSC and equivalent tests which began on Feb 1. Among them, 735,229 are boys and 684,828 girls.

Total 1,052,969 students sat for SSC tests. Among them 532,818 are girls and 520,115 boys. For the first time, girls have outnumbered the boys in SSC examinations.

In addition, 275,930 students appeared for Dakhil tests and another 91,158 students are SSC (Vocational) tests.

For the first time this year, there were 'creative questions' in all the papers except Bengali second paper, English first and second paper and mathematics.

The number of total students took part from abroad is 274. They appeared in tests at Jeddah, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha, Bahrain and Tripoli centres under Dhaka Education Board.