SSC, equivalent exams begin

A total of 6,826 candidates were absent on the opening day of the Secondary School Certificate and its equivalent examinations that began across the country on Monday.
The education ministry control room also said that seven students were expelled on the day for adopting unfair means in the exam.
The students of the general education board took Bangla first paper exam on the day while madrassah students took Quran Majid, Tasbid paper exam.
This year, 16,51,523 students are sitting for the examinations at 3,143 centres.
Of them, 13,04,274 are taking SSC exams under eight general education boards while 2,48,865 are sitting for Dakhil under Madrassah Education Board and 98,384 for SSC (vocational) under Bangladesh Technical Education Board, respectively.

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