The interim government has decided to publish the results of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) tests and equivalent exams by mid-October, by evaluating the scripts of seven tests already held and determining the score of the remaining six subjects based on SSC results.

Professor Tapan Kumar Sarkar, chairman of Dhaka Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board, confirmed the decision to reporters on Wednesday.

As per UNB, the HSC and equivalent exams began across the country on 30 June. A total of 14,50,790 students from nine General Education Boards, Madrasah Board and Technical Board appeared for the exams from 9,463 educational institutions at 2,275 centres.

After eight days of exams, all exams scheduled for 18 July were postponed due to the increasingly tense situation created by the students’ quota reform movement.

After that, the government postponed the exams three more times.

Finally, after postponing all the exams, a new schedule was published for holding the remaining exams from 11 August. According to the updated schedule, the written exams were supposed to end by 8 September.

On 24 August, the Ministry of Education decided to cancel all the remaining HSC exams. This decision came in response to demands from some students who stormed the secretariat on that day.