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The results of the re-scrutiny of this year’s SSC and equivalent examination answer scripts may be published on September 10, according to a proposal from the Inter-Education Board Coordination Committee, a platform of the country’s education boards.
The date will be finalised if the Education Ministry approves the proposal.
Around 400,000 students who applied for re-scrutiny after failing to achieve their expected results are waiting for the outcome.
Professor Syed Akhtaruzzaman, chairman of the Inter-Education Board Coordination Committee and Dhaka Education Board, told Sara Bangla on Thursday afternoon that September 10 had been proposed as the tentative date for publishing the re-scrutiny results.
The proposal, along with a draft policy on admission to Class XI, has been sent to the Education Ministry, he said.
A total of 402,051 students applied for re-scrutiny this year, seeking reviews of the results of 1,056,455 papers.
Of these, 231,471 papers have practical components. In total, 1,287,926 answer scripts—1,056,455 theoretical papers and 231,471 practical papers—will be reviewed.
The SSC and equivalent examination results were published on August 10. The average pass rate was 62.25 percent, the lowest in 19 years. A total of 690,608 students failed the examinations.
Students were allowed to apply for re-scrutiny from the day after the results were published until August 17.
Applications were submitted through the website developed under the Education Ministry’s Integrated Education Information Management System (IEIMS) project. Applicants were required to pay Tk150 for each paper they wanted re-scrutinised.
On the day the results were published, Education Minister A N M Ehsanul Haque Milon said that, for the first time, answer scripts could be re-evaluated under the new system.
Previously, students dissatisfied with their results in public examinations such as the SSC and HSC could apply for re-scrutiny. Under the Public Examinations (Offences) Act, 1980, marks were only recounted; answer scripts were not re-evaluated.
However, Parliament passed the Public Examinations (Offences) (Amendment) Bill-2026 on July 7, and it was gazetted on July 9 after the existing law was amended.
Under the amended law, an examiner who over-assesses or under-assesses an answer script in a public examination may face up to two years in prison, a fine, or both. Such over- or under-assessment must be determined through a third examiner.