Moreover, the pre-primary period is planned to be extended from one year to two years, he said. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove"No examinations from Grade I to III will be held in the government primary schools. In Bangladesh, no admission test is held in 65,593 government primary schools and students get admitted in the pre-primary classes. But, the government has long been ignoring the academicians who suggested it to scrap 5th Grade Primary Education Completion or PEC examination. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had recently instructed the primary and mass education ministry to scrap all examinations from Grade I to III of primary schools to ease the burden on the children.

Source: bd News24 March 20, 2019 15:22 UTC