117,699 Recheck Applications for HSC Scripts Under Chattogram Board, English Tops the List

Students under the Chattogram Education Board have applied for rechecking of 117,699 HSC examination scripts over the results. The highest number of applications has been filed for English, with requests to re-evaluate 11,066 scripts in that subject.

Professor Dr Parvez Sazzad Chowdhury, controller of examinations of the Chattogram Education Board, confirmed these figures.

The rechecking results will be published on 23 November.

Board sources said the deadline for rechecking applications was initially set for 7 November. For the convenience of students, it was extended by one day to 12 noon on 8 November. By the end of the extended period, a total of 117,699 applications had been submitted.

In this year's HSC examination, results were comparatively poor in English and in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). A total of 34,177 students failed English; among those who sat the examination, the failure rate in this subject was 34.23 percent.

In ICT, 26,597 students failed, a failure rate of 26.64 percent in the subject.

With failure rates high in both subjects and English also topping the rechecking applications, students' dissatisfaction with the results has become evident.

This year, 96,335 students from five districts sat the HSC examination under the Chattogram Education Board. Of them, 50,166 passed, giving a pass rate of 52.07 percent.

The results published on 30 October showed this pass rate to be the lowest in nearly two decades. Students from Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Rangamati, Bandarban and Khagrachhari districts took the examination under the board.