News Desk:
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said the success rate in the secondary school certificate or SSC and equivalent exams has dropped this year due to a new method adopted to examine scripts.
After handing over copies of the results to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday, he said, “We anticipated it, but it might be surprising to others. But the new method is a progress.”
“The pass rate is less this year. The prime minister had instructed us to make sure that the answer scripts are evaluated properly,” said Nahid.
He said they have been working for the last three years to develop a ‘standard’ for grading answer scripts, which came into effect this year.
The new method ensures that the chief examiners check the scripts, according to Nahid. “We have said earlier that the chief examiners did not check the scripts but just gave a report on it.”
In the new evaluation method, the government trained chief examiners, who then trained the examiners.
“The chief examiners set a guideline for evaluating answer scripts before forwarding them to the examiners.”
