The next Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations will be held in March 2017. A major portion of the successful students will pursue higher studies. As accommodation of students are very limited comparing to aspirant candidates a battle starts among the students to get admission in public universities and public medical colleges. The admission tests are designed in such a way that coaching is felt necessary by the candidates and their guardians. They are financially suffering. The candidates who attend coaching centres and prepare themselves according to the advice of coaching centres usually get chance of admission in university and medical collages. The students, who cannot purchase high cost service of coaching centres, are usually left out. Students who take assistance of the coaching centres get more chances for admission. Their knowledge in HSC or equivalent studies has less effect on admission tests. This is unacceptable. The people who are responsible for preparing questions for admission tests in universities and medical colleges should avoid questions of coaching centres and select questions from syllabuses of the education boards. If questions are selected in this fashion then genuinely talented students of all economic strata will get opportunities to study in public universities and public medical colleges. If this practice is followed for several years students will lose confidence in coaching centres and the guardians will be relieved from spending huge amounts of hard-earned money the coaching centres charge from students seeking admission in universities and colleges.
Md. Ashraf Hossain
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