Countrywide Junior Terminal Examination for Class-VIII students will be held simultaneously across the country with same question paper from this year.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid came up with the discloser at a press briefing at his office Monday, after holding the maiden Primary Terminal Examination at the end of last academic session.
Annual examination in class VIII and junior scholarship examination will be merged into the class-VIII Terminal Examination through introducing the new public exam at the secondary school level.
Under the new examination system, scholarships will be given based on the results of the students in their terminal exams.
The students will be enrolled in class IX on the basis of certificates of the terminal examinations.
Earlier, the first Primary Education Terminal Examination for the students of class V was held on November 21-24.
Addressing the briefing the minister said the government is trying to improve the standard of education in the country through taking various steps.
He said the government has scraped its earlier decision to hold the mathematics exam of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) under the new creative-question method from 2011.
Nahid said this year only Bengali and Religion exams of the SSC will be held in the new creative-question method. The exams in three more subjects will be held under the method from next year.
The education minister said the government has allotted Tk 112.35 crore to bring the country’s non-government educational institutions under the MPO (Monthly Payment Order).
“A huge number of educational institutions will be brought under the MPO with the money,” he said.
He said the new MPO policy would be followed strictly in bringing the institutions under MPO. “We will remove reported massive irregularities and nepotism in handing out MPO to non-government institutions like schools, colleges and madrasas, often on political considerations.”
The education ministry has published the application form and a guideline for Monthly Pay Order (MPO) on its website for the MPO-listing of new non-government educational institutions.
The minister lamented that despite sufficient textbooks in stock, some students in Dhaka did not get books timely due to negligence of education officer.
--UNB, Dhaka
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