Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni on Thursday said steps will be taken to prevent distribution of wrong question papers in examinations. She further said that students who have already sat for exams with wrong set of questions will not face any ‘harm’.
She said, “Answer scripts of affected examinees of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC), who experienced difficulties after distribution of wrong question papers at some examination centres, are kept aside and students will not face any problem for this.”
She said this while addressing a press briefing on ‘Skills, Readiness for Achieving SDGs and Adopting IR 4.0’ at the conference room of the Secretariat in the capital.
Dipu Moni said the problem could be avoided if the authorities concerned took steps to make separate sitting arrangements for regular and irregular examinees.
“The problem is seen every year with question paper for regular and irregular students,” she said.
According to directive of the secondary and higher education boards, exams were supposed to be taken with separate sitting arrangements for regular and irregular examinees. But, several hundreds of regular examinees have given examination against the question papers of irregular examinees’ in different parts of the country including Lalmonirhat, Nilphamari, Tangail and Barishal.
Education Minister informed that SSC and equivalent examinations have been taken in 52,000 rooms of different educational institutes across the country. Of those, wrong question papers have been distributed in 15 rooms.
She also said, “We have taken all out measures to prevent distribution of wrong question papers. The incidence of distribution of wrong question papers have reduced compared to past years. We will continue our effort so that not a single incident of distributing wrong question paper occurs in future.”
Talking about guide books, Minister Dipu Moni said the government wants to stop guide books as there is no need for guide books in the creative method.
She said, “Everybody has to be aware so that no guide book or note book publishing institutions will allure students to purchase guide books.”
She also sought help from the local administration and law enforcers to take steps in preventing use of guide books.
This year, about 20,47,779 students have participated in SSC and equivalent examinations across the country. The examinations have started on February 3 and will end on March 5.
