SSC Examination
Bangladesh conducts first public examination for school students amid COVID-19 pandemic
Dhaka: Nearly 19000 students remained absent on the first day as Bangladesh conducted first public tests for school students on Sunday amid COVID-19 pandemic.
The physical exam of the science stream of the crucial Secondary School Certificate was held across the country on the first day of the examination.
The number of absentees may go up when business studies and humanities students take their first tests on Monday, reports bdnews24.
More than 2.2 million students have registered for the SCC and equivalent exams this year, with a little over 900,000 in the science stream, the news portal reported.
The SSC tests are being held this year on reduced syllabuses of three elective subjects considering the setback caused by the pandemic, bdnews24 reported.
Students were seen wearing masks and using hand sanitizers on the first day of the examination, a health norm followed by almost all nations now to avoid COVID-19 spread.
Bangladesh, like many other nations, had witnessed a deadly phase of the pandemic in the past.
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