File photo of students sitting for a PEC exam at a school in Dhaka Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka TribuneThe two and a half hour examinations will begin at 10:30am every dayThe Primary and Ebtedayee terminal examinations have begun across Bangladesh. The exams are being held at 7,470 centres where 2,553,267 students are participating in the Primary terminal examinations. Of them, 1,181,300 are boys and 1,371,967 girls, an official press release by Ministry of Primary and Mass Education said on Saturday afternoon. Besides, 350,371 students – 187,082 boys and 166,281 girls – are attending the Ebtedayee terminal examinations at 7,458 centres across the country while 615 students are sitting for the exams in eight centres abroad, the release said. The two and a half hour examinations will begin at 10:30am every day.

Source: Dhaka Tribune November 17, 2019 04:55 UTC