Govt cancels postponed HSC exams amid protests

The remaining exams of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent exams have been cancelled amid students' protests.

Dhaka Education Board Chairman Professor Tapan Kumar Sarkar stated that the method for releasing the results of the HSC examinations will be determined at a later time.

Earlier in the day, the interim government decided that the postponed HSC exams would be held with half marks with fewer questions. However, the exams were cancelled following the protests by the students.

A group of HSC examinees entered the Secretariat while chanting slogans demanding the cancellation of exams this afternoon.

Around 2pm they announced that they will hold a sit-in inside the Secretariat as long as their demands are not met.

They don't want to sit for the HSC exam anymore, the protesting students said.

The results for the seven exams that took place earlier should be published, they said, arguing that as for the exams that have been suspended the results of those should be calculated according to the SSC exam results.

"We will prove our merit in the university entrance exams," said a protesting student at the secretariat.

The HSC and equivalent examinations of all education boards started on 30 June. However, after seven exams were conducted, the exams were postponed due to unavoidable reasons arising from the mass uprising in July.