The education ministry has clarified the rule for SSC examinees to enter the examination centres at least half an hour before the start of the tests.
The students who will fail to enter the examination centres before the stipulated time will be allowed to sit the examinations after showing valid reasons behind the delay.
The students will have to write down their names, roll numbers and the reasons in a registrar in case of delay, the government said in a circular on Monday, reports bdnews24.com.
The examination centre secretaries will hand the lists of late students over to the related boards daily.
Copies of the orders were sent to divisional commissioners, chairpersons of the boards, deputy commissioners, director general of the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education and others.
In a desperate move to stop question paper leak before JSC, JDC and equivalent tests in 2017, the then education minister Nurul Islam Nahid had announced the rule making it mandatory for the students to enter the centres half an hour before the exams.
“No student will be allowed in the exam centres if they come after the stipulated time,” Secondary and Higher Education Secretary Md Sohrab Hossain had said at the time.
But the absence of an announcement in writing on the rule has been creating complexities at the centres when a student reports after the time for unavoidable reasons.
In another notice, the ministry said no-one can use mobile phones or electronic devices except the centre secretary. The centre secretary can use a phone that will have no camera and internet, it added.
Set codes of the questions will be announced 25 minutes before the tests start, said the notice.
The SSC and equivalent examinations will start simultaneously in 4,964 centres on February 2.
A total of over 2.5 million students have registered for the exams this year.
