SSC, HSC Exams: Why not evaluate answers using competent teachers?
The High Court yesterday issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain in four weeks why they should not be directed to evaluate the answer sheets of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations by competent and experienced teachers.
In the rule, the court also asked the authorities to show causes why they should not be directed to give enough time to the examiners for evaluating the answer sheets.
The HC bench of Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury and Justice JBM Hassan came up with the rule following a writ petition filed by Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh.
The organisation submitted the petition on January 1, saying that many answer sheets of SSC and HSC examinations were reportedly evaluated in a faulty manner and, therefore, candidates got poor marks.
When those were re-evaluated they got more marks and, in the meantime, some candidates reportedly committed suicide, the petitioner said, claiming that this reportedly happened as the examiners were not allocated enough time.
During hearing yesterday, petitioners' lawyer Advocate Manzill Murshid told the court that there is a rule for evaluating the answer sheets of public examinations through competent and experienced teachers but the rule is not properly followed.
The education secretary and chairmen of all education boards have been made respondents to the rule.
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