SSC exams begin

Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations for this year began across the country on Sunday.
A total of 13,03,203 students -- 6,68,268 male and 6,34,935 female -- from 27,073 educational institutions is expected to take the exams at 2,758 centres.
Of them, over 9.89 lakh students will appear in the SSC exams. About 2.25 lakh students will take the Dakhil (secondary level of madrasa) exams while around 88,360 candidates will sit for the SSC vocational exams.
The exams started around 10:00am today with Bangla 1st paper for the SSC and SSC vocational students, while the Dakhil candidates will take their only Bangla exam.
This year, the number of examinees under 10 education boards including the madrasa and technical education boards has dropped by 1.16 lakh.

Exams in all subjects except for Bangla 2nd paper, English 1st and 2nd papers, mathematics and higher mathematics will be held under the creative question method introduced in 2010.
Under the Dhaka education board, a total of 293 overseas students will also sit for the exams in seven overseas centres.
The written examinations will end on March 5. Practical exams will start on March 6 and continue until March 18.