File photo of students during a HSC exam in Dhaka Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka TribuneThe HSC and its equivalent examinations began on April 1 and will continue until May 11The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) finance and banking exams, which had been scheduled for Monday under Dhaka and Jessore boards, will now be held at 2pm on May 7. The decision to reschedule the exams came after an envelope containing multiple choice question papers of finance, banking, and insurance second paper was mistakenly opened at Alfadanga Government College centre in Faridpur on Sunday. Meanwhile, the finance, banking, and insurance second paper exams under other boards will be held as per schedule at 10am on Monday, Ziaul informed. "Monday’s exams of other papers in all boards will also be held as per the original schedule," he said. Around 1,138,747 candidates are taking part in the exams under eight general education boards of the country.

Source: Dhaka Tribune April 28, 2019 15:11 UTC