Staff reporter:
The results of this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations, in which more than 12.70 lakh examinees took part, will be publish today.
The results will be formally announced at 11am at the meeting room of the Secondary and Higher Education Division of the Ministry of Education.
Education and Primary and Mass Education Minister Dr A N M Ehsanul Hoque Milon will unveil the result publication activities as the chief guest.
Prime Minister’s Adviser on Education and Primary and Mass Education Mahdi Amin, secretaries of the two divisions of the Education Ministry, chairmen of all boards and officials of the ministry and the boards concerned with examinations will be present at the ceremony.
Right after the unveil, examinees will be able to know their results simultaneously through their educational institutions, designated websites and SMS.
Online, results can be known with roll and registration numbers from https://eduboardresults.gov.bd and https://educationboardresults.gov.bd.
Results can also be known instantly by sending an SMS to 16140 from any mobile operator in the prescribed format.
The HSC and equivalent examinations began simultaneously across the country on July 2 under nine general education boards, the Bangladesh Technical Education Board and the Bangladesh Madrasah Education Board.
Although the written examinations were scheduled to end on August 8, some exams of several boards, including Chattogram, were postponed due to natural disasters and floods and held later. The practical examinations were completed by August 15.
The Education Ministry said a total of 12,70,583 examinees took part in the examinations under 11 boards this year. Of them, 6,21,969 were boys and 6,48,614 were girls. This year, 26,645 more girls than boys sat for the HSC examinations.
Students of 9,439 educational institutions took part in the examinations at 2,697 centres across the country.
This year, the examinations were held under a uniform question paper in the nine general education boards. A total of 10,69,714 examinees took part in the nine boards.
Meanwhile, an Inter-Education Board press release said applications for rescrutiny or reassessment of answer scripts by students dissatisfied with their results will start from November 1.
Students can apply online until November 7. Detailed instructions will be published on the websites of the respective education boards.
