Bangla, English mandatory for 2022 SSC, HSC

As secondary schools and colleges partially resume in-person classes today, education boards have decided that SSC and HSC candidates of 2022 will need to sit for Bangla and English exams besides three optional subjects.

Meanwhile, the government has decided to hold the Secondary School Certificate and Higher Secondary Certificate exams in mid-June and mid-August respectively.

All the exams will be held with curtailed syllabuses and fewer marks, Professor Gazi Hasan Kamal, chairman of Mymensingh education board, told The Daily Star.

The syllabuses were revised and marks curtailed as schools and colleges were shut down for long due to Covid-19, he said.

Prof Md Moshiuzzaman, member of National Curriculum and Textbook Board, said they have already prepared a short syllabus for all subjects and notified all concerned regarding the matter.

Last year, SSC and HSC candidates took the tests only in three optional subjects with a shortened syllabus and the fewer marks, due to the pandemic.

SCHOOLS REOPENING

Only students with two doses of Covid-19 vaccines will be allowed to attend in-person classes, which resume partially today after a month-long closure due to the pandemic. Students with only one dose will have to attend online or TV classes, officials said.

"Covid-19 safety protocols will be followed strictly and all the schools have almost completed their preparation in this regard," said Prof Nehal Ahmed, director general of Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE).

He said there are 1.28 crore students from grades six to 12 and about 1.27 crore already have received the first vaccine dose, while 80 percent of them received the second. "We hope that rest will get their second dose within a week."

In-person classes at primary schools will resume on March 2.