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| Terminal exam for madrasa students too |
| 2010-07-09 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] The students of class-V of ebtedai madrasa will sit for a terminal examination for the first time this year along with primary school students. Only school students of class-V participated in the previous primary terminal examination introduced last year. Students of the ebtedai madrasas that follow the curriculum of Bangladesh Madrasa Education Board will take the examination likely to be held on November 22 this year, said officials of primary and mass education ministry yesterday. Mohammad Yusuf, chairman of Madrasa Education Board, said around five lakh madrasa students are expected to sit for the exam, which will be supervised by the primary and mass education ministry. Around 21 lakh students of primary schools will also take the exams and the results are likely to be published within December 20-25, said ministry officials. The government last year replaced the primary scholarship examination with the terminal examination, now the largest public exam in Bangladesh. Nearly 19 lakh students of class-V from 81,372 schools sat the exam. Of them, 16 lakh passed. The government now mulls increasing scholarships in terminal exam considering the swelling number of primary students, the officials said. "We will try to raise the number of scholarships to one lakh from last year's 50,000," said Abu Alam Mohammad Shahid Khan, secretary-in-charge of the ministry. Of the scholarships, 50,000 will be given in talent pool and the rest in general category, he said. The examinations of six subjects for both school and madrasa students will be held in six days instead of three, said officials of Directorate of Primary Education (DPE). The students must pass the terminal exam to get enrolled in class-VI, they said. The ministry organised a daylong workshop on preparation for holding the exams at the DPE yesterday in presence of Primary and Mass Education Minister Afsarul Ameen, DPE director general, and other high-ups. The minister said last year's experience in holding the exams would help them make it foolproof this time. The officials proposed bringing a few amendments to the policy on terminal exams. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 It seems unfair to expect Class V madrassah students to be able to actually read, write, and cipher like normal students. After all, they've been memorizing Suras for five years without let-up at this point -- no time for petty endeavors like literacy. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-07-09 21:30 |
| #3 FYI, A lakh = 100,000. Thus 2.1 primary school students will take these exams. Last year 1.9 million students took the tests and 1.6 million passed. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2010-07-09 11:24 |
| #2 "Terminal" exams at the madrasa? What's that entail? Building bombs blindfolded? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-07-09 10:40 |
| #1 Article has neither irony nor sense. I suspect it is not a requirement. |
| Posted by: Black Bart Shick7973 2010-07-09 06:02 |