Primary Centre Examination: Biggest Exams Begin in Bangladesh
Bangladesh Primary Centre Examination, About 1.83 million class V students took part in the newly introduced public examinations across the country yesterday with great enthusiasm.
Of the total 1.98 million students, 92.27 percent appeared on the first day of the Primary Education Terminal Examination, according to the control room of the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education at 9:00 last night.
A number of students and their guardians in the capital and elsewhere passed an anxious day on the first day due to the new system beginning with two exams with an interval of two hours.
Otherwise, a festive look wore in the examination centres in the country as the students for the first time in their life attended the public examinations.
The largest public examination of the country started at 10:00am at 5,343 centres across the country with the number of female students higher than the males.
The exams began with Bangla in the first phase followed by science at 2:00pm. The students will sit for mathematics and religion today and English and social science on November 24.
Both the students and their guardians believe the questions were apparently easy which was a relief for both the groups.
Primary and Mass Education Minister Afsarul Amin visited different exam centres and talked to the examiners, centre officials and students.
While visiting some centres in Narayanganj, he said the government is putting utmost efforts to upgrade the standard of education. They will improve the exam system next year, he added.
A number of examinees in the city told The Daily Star the questions were easy and they performed well on the first day.
“The questions were quite common and I did very well,” said Nazmun Nahar of Uttara High School.
She however said it would have been better for them if one exam was held each day.
A different angle was revealed by Redwanul Islam of Azampur Govt High School. He told The Daily Star he could have done well if the questions were not so easy.
“My teachers and parents taught me answers to the tough questions. But the questions in the exams were easy which was beyond our imagination.”
A significant number of guardians welcomed the new system. But most of them say it would have been better if the authorities took six exams in six days as two exams a day is a huge pressure for the little ones.
“Except the talented ones, the general students are not accustomed to giving two exams in a day. It was a huge pressure on them,” said Nasima Akhter, a guardian.
“Even there has been a gap between the exams in the School Secondary Certificate (SSC) examinations, but there is no gap here,” she added.
The guardians also say they did not have much time to prepare their children, while some point out to anxiety of their children for going to new exam venues.
“My daughter got panicked during the search for her sit in the exam centre, which was completely new to her,” said an anxious mother Rozina.
The new system will make the students more attentive as they have to study the entire books to sit for the terminal exams, the guardians observe.
Another guardian Mizanur Rahman said all students do not have same merit or capability and it was too tough for the general students to complete entire syllabus within a few months.
“It would be better if the authorities hold the exams next year after a yearlong preparation,” he added.
The result of the exams is likely to be announced on December 20 and the students would get certificates after that.
Full Article: The Daily Star
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