Questions leak alleged
The allegations of question paper leak are back again. Candidates of Primary School Certificate exams took the Bangla exam yesterday amid the allegations in the capital and Bogra.
Some guardians in Dhaka alleged that they came to know about the leak of Bangla questions on a Facebook page (www.facebook.com/PSC-JSC-SSC-HSC-Exam-Question-Out100-common/637953069576474) on Sunday night.
Most of the questions, including letters, essays, seen and unseen passages, and a poem, on the Facebook page matched with those in the original question paper, they added.
Around 9:00pm last night, the same Facebook page also had some questions for the Bangladesh and Global Studies exam which is scheduled for today.
Talking to The Daily Star, a guardian from Mohammadpur said, “As one of my friends told me that questions [of Bangla] were available on a Facebook page last [Sunday] night, I checked the web page and found it true.”
BOGRA TEACHERS JAILED
A mobile court on Sunday night sentenced three teachers to one year's imprisonment each for distributing Bangla questions among students at two coaching centres in Bogra town.
The three are Mahbubur Rahman, Golam Sarwar and Shafiqul Islam.
Led by Sadar Upazila Nirbahi Officer Abdur Rahim, the court raided Mohona and Summit coaching centres at Jaleshwaritola of the town around 8:00pm and arrested the teachers with a sample Bangla question paper.
The UNO said they found around 80 percent questions of the sample question paper matched with the original one yesterday.
The court fined a teacher Tk 5,000 for keeping his coaching centre open in the exam season, violating the government's order.
The primary terminal and other public exams were mired in recent years in allegations of question paper leak. Following the alleged leak of Bangla and English question papers last year, the primary and mass education ministry formed a probe committee.
The committee found that 80 percent questions of English and 50 percent of Bangla matched leaked question papers in Dhaka, Khulna, Satkhira and Dinajpur.
Last night, the Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) trashed the allegations of question leak.
“It's nothing but rumours. We haven't received anything yet... if you have any [webpage] link, please send me,” Mohammad Alamgir, director general of DPE, told this newspaper. This correspondent sent the link of the Facebook page to the DG.
This year's primary and ebtedayee terminal exams began on Sunday with around 31 lakh class-V students of schools and madrasas taking the tests. The exams will end on November 30.
Our Bogra correspondent contributed to this report.
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