DHAKA: The Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations have begun across the country on Tuesday (November 1).

A total of 2,412,775 examinees, including 1,124,373 males and 1,288,402 females, have been appearing in the examinations this year.

The number of female students has marked a rise by 164,029 than 2015.

The examinations will continue till November 17.

Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid said that the results will be published within December 30.

Hearing impaired and other specially-abled examinees will get 20 extra minutes for answering the questions while students who have been suffering from vision problems, amputation and cerebral palsy will get an amanuensis each.

Students from 28,761 educational institutions have been appearing for the examinations at 2,734 centres across the country.

Besides, 681 students are sitting for the examinations in eight overseas countries.

As many as 103,653 irregular students will take part in the JSC examination while 18,021 in JDC.

The number of special students in JSC is 91,861 while in JDC it is 14,698.

BDST: 1224 HRS, NOV 01, 2016
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