A section of students, who failed in this year鈥檚 Secondary School Certificate and its equivalent examinations, on Thursday demanded immediate supplementary exams and admission to colleges.
They also tried to go towards the Bangladesh secretariat in the capital Dhaka with a rally, but police obstructed them near the Shikkha Bhaban.
Later, four of them were allowed inside the secretariat who submitted their four-point demand to the office of the interim government鈥檚 adviser for the education ministry, Professor Chowdhury Rafiqul Abrar.
Earlier at noon, the students held a rally in front of the office of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka on Thursday.
The demands include immediate supplementary exams for the failed candidates of this year鈥檚 SSC and equivalent exams so that the students do not lose an academic year, the students who would pass the proposed supplementary exams have to be allowed for admission to colleges, the elimination of discrimination in question papers by removing board-wise question standards and the removing of the system of separate passes in the multiple choice question and CQ parts of the SSC and its equivalent exams.
After getting no assurance from the board office, they started for the secretariat and about 4:00pm they reached near Shikkha Bhaban near the secretariat.
Then police put barricades on the road stopping the students to go forward, but later allowed four of them to go inside the secretariat.
About 4:30pm, they submitted their demands to the adviser鈥檚 personal secretary AKM Tajkir-UZ-Zaman at his office.
Tajkir said that the adviser was not present when the students came.
The results of the SSC and its equivalent exams published on July 10 showed that the combined pass rate stood at 68.45 per cent in 2025, while it was 83.04 per cent in 2024.
This year鈥檚 combined pass rate is the lowest after 2009 when the pass rate was 67.41 per cent.
Earlier on October 23 past year, the students, who failed or achieved poor results in 2024鈥檚 Higher Secondary Certificate and its equivalent exams, stormed the key point installation demanding the cancellation of 鈥榙iscriminatory results鈥�.
