Junior terminal exams from this year
February 9, 2010
Countrywide junior terminal examination for class-VIII students will be held simultaneously across the country with same question paper from this year.
Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid came up with the discloser at a press briefing at his office yesterday. The decision came after holding the maiden primary terminal examination at the end of last academic session.
Annual examination in class VIII and junior scholarship examination will be merged into the class-VIII terminal examination through introducing the new public exams at the secondary school level.
Under the new examination system, scholarships will be given based on the results of the students in their terminal exams.
The students will be enrolled in class IX on the basis of certificates of the terminal examinations.
Earlier, the first primary education terminal examination for the students of class V was held on November 21-24.
Addressing the briefing the minister said the government is trying to improve the standard of education in the country through taking various steps.
He said the government had scraped its earlier decision to hold the mathematics exam of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) under the new creative-question method from 2011.
Nahid said this year only Bengali and Religion exams of the SSC will be held in the new creative-question method. The exams in three more subjects will be held under the method from next year.
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