From BDNews "2.6 mn students take terminal exam"
Dhaka, Nov 23 (bdnews24.com)—Some 2.6 million students --an increase by 1,49,347 than last year's-- have sat for mathematics exams, the opening test for the primary and madrasah terminal examinations this year.
The exams began at 11am on Wednesday at 6,168 centres across the country and seven centres in Saudi Arabia's Riyadh and Jeddah, UAE's Abu Dhabi and Ras Al Khaimah, Libya's Tripoli, Bahrain and Australia's Canberra.
This is for the first time the results will be given following grading system instead of the traditional division system, Primary and mass education minister Mohammad Afsarul Amin told bdnews24.com.
Roughly 2.3 million students are taking part in the primary terminal examinations, including 4,920 appearing in English version. Of them, around 1.07 million candidates are girls.
Meanwhile, about 0.3 million students would sit for the ebtedayee terminal examinations of whom 53.25 percent are girls, the minister told a press briefing on Tuesday.
He added that 4,003 candidates with disabilities would appear for the examinations and would be given an extra 15 minutes to complete their papers.
The number of Talent Pool Scholarships to be given this year has been increased by two thousand to 22,000 while the number of general scholarships would be 33,000 against last year's 30,000.
Last year, some 2.48 million students appeared for the exams of whom 92.34 percent passed the hurdles.
The primary and ebtedayee terminal examinations were launched in 2009. The examinations this year will last till Nov 30, primary education directorate's administration director Abdul Rouf Chowdhury had told bdnews24.com earlier.
The three-hour examinations will commence from 11am on every test date.
