HSC exams begin

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The Higher Secondary Certificate and its equivalent examinations began on Monday amid apprehension among the examinees and their guardians over disruption of the exams due to possible shutdown in the coming days.

The students sat for Bangla first paper exam on the first day while their Bangla second paper exam will be held on April 3.

This year, 10,12,581 examinees — 5,35,662 boys and 4,76,919 girls — from 7,803 educational institutions across the country sat for the examinations at 2,288 centres under 10 education boards, including madrasa and technical boards.

The HSC exams also started at five overseas centres simultaneously for 165 candidates.

The number of examinees rose by 85,767 this year.

The examinees and their guardians are more concerned about possible hartals than the exams, some examinees said while talking to the Daily Star earlier.

They once again appealed to political parties not to enforce hartal on the exam days.

“We don’t want to face any trouble like the SSC examinees did. We just want to take the exams without interruption,” said Mannaf, an HSC examinee.

The written exams are scheduled to end on May 28.