Officials responsible for erroneous HSC question paper suspended

Education Minister ANM Ehsanul Hoque Milon said on Wednesday that the officials responsible for preparing the erroneous question paper for the HSC examinations have already been suspended.

He also said that the HSC examinees who were unable to attend the examinations due to adverse weather or other unavoidable reasons will be allowed to sit for the missed papers.

He made the announcement through a statement in parliament under Rule 300. The minister said that this special arrangement has been made considering the importance of the HSC examination in students' academic lives.

A total of 12,70,583 candidates are taking the HSC and equivalent examinations this year at 2,697 examination centres across the country.

The minister said that HSC examinations have already been postponed in five districts – Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Khagrachhari, Rangamati and Bandarban – due to heavy rainfall and adverse weather conditions.

He said that some candidates in Dhaka and several other districts were also unable to sit the scheduled examinations because of adverse weather and various unavoidable circumstances.

“The candidates who could not take part in any subject of the ongoing HSC and equivalent examinations will be allowed to sit those papers on the same date and at the same time fixed by the Education Ministry for the already postponed examinations under the Chattogram Education Board,” the minister told parliament.

He said the examinations would be held using identical question papers for the relevant subjects.

Talking about the controversy surrounding the Physics First Paper examination, he said that all candidates would receive full marks for questions 6 and 7 of the Physics First Paper examination, where errors were identified.

He said that the government remained committed to ensuring that no student would be affected because of mistakes in the examination process or circumstances beyond their control.

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