BANGLADESH

The Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JSD) examinations began on Sunday at 2,250 centres across the country.

Senior Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Education Subodh Chandra Dhali told bdnews24.com the Bengali first paper examination began on Sunday at 10am.

A total of 1,908,365 students from 27,642 educational institutions are appearing in the exams. Of them, 1,011,503 are girls and 896,862 boys.

The Education Ministry said this year 47, 252 more students are sitting the tests than last year. A total of 1,861,113 candidates had sat the tests last year.

According to the ministry, a total of 1,553,575 candidates, 826,082 of whom are girls and 727,493 boys, are appearing for the JSC examinations.

The number is 354,790 for JDC tests, with 185,421 of them girls and 169,369 boys.

The number of irregular candidates for JSC exams is 149,392 and JDC 23,292.

JSC has 136,711 special candidates – who failed in up to three subjects last year – and JDC has 20,301 such candidates.

The examinations will also be held at seven centres abroad. A centre in Jeddah has 106 candidates, Riyadh 109, Tripoli eight, Doha 72, Abu Dhabi 39, and two centres in Dubai have 18 and 36 candidates respectively.

Ten candidates from Oman's capital Muscat will also be taking the examinations for the first time.

Question papers except for Bengali second paper, English first and second papers and mathematics will be based on creativity. Handicapped candidates will be allowed 20 minutes of extra time.

The candidates with sight disability and missing limbs will be allowed a dictation taker.

The results are supposedly to be published by December.

JSC was introduced in the country for the first time in 2010 and JDC in 2011 for eighth-graders.

JSC,JDC result published.A total of 83.71 percent candidates have passed this year's Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations.

Of them, 30, 852 got GPA-5.

Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid handed over a copy of the result sheet to prime minister Sheikh Hasina around 12:30pm Saturday and is scheduled to reveal the details of the results late afternoon.

The pass rate of JSC examination is 82.67 percent and JDC 88.71 percent.

Last year, the pass rate of JSC examination was 71.34 percent and JDC 81.03 percent. Some 8,556 candidates got GPA-5.

A total of 1,537,422 students took part in this year's JSC examination while the number of candidates in the JDC examination was 1,861,113.

The number of girls taking part in the examinations exceeds the number of boys by 137,585. Some 999,349 male students took part in the examinations and the number of girls was 861,764.

The results of the examinations, taken under eight educational boards and the Madrasah Education Board, will be available on the website of the boards, www.educationboardresults.gov.bd, from 4:30pm.

Candidates will also be able to get results through SMS to 16222 from Teletalk numbers. JSC candidates will have to type JSC, leave a space, type first three letters of corresponding board, leave another space and type the roll number.

For results of JDC examinations, candidates will have to type JSC, leave a space, type first three letters of corresponding board, leave another space and type the roll number.

Students, who want reexamination of their papers, will be able to apply through SMS from Teletalk numbers from Dec 29 to Jan 7.
The examinations of the Grade-VIII students were launched in 2010. This year's examinations were held in 2,009 centres across the country from Nov 1 to Nov 21.

Tests for all subjects but Bengali second part, English first and second parts and Mathematics saw questions of creative system.

The education ministry release said JSC and JDC candidates, who fail up to three subjects, will be able to get admission in GRADE-IX and will have to pass in the subjects next year.

Students with disabilities had gotten 20 more minutes in the examinations. Those who cannot see or write for other physical reasons had been given the opportunity to use writers.

Results of Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations will be published on Dec 28.

"The results are being published within 37 days after the exam ended," education secretary Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury told  on Wednesday.

The education ministry earlier announced that it would publish the results within Dec 31.

JSC and JDC examinations started from Nov 1 and ended on Nov 21.

A total of 18,61,113 students took part in the exams --15,37,422 students for JSC and the rest 3,23,691 students sat for JDC.

The examination is being held since 2010 for the Grade-VIII students. This year, the exams were held at 2009 centres simultaneously.

All the papers saw creative questions except for Bengali second paper, English first and second paper and Mathematics.

Like the previous year, students failing in three subjects would be allowed to get themselves admitted to Grade-IX but they would have to take part and pass in the next examination, according to the education ministry.

This year, the physically challenged students were given extra 20 minutes. Moreover, those who cannot see or write were allowed to have a writer.