IBA admission seekers demand permission to retake tests

Admission seekers for the bachelor programme at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) under Dhaka University will submit a memorandum to the DU vice-chancellor and IBA director today demanding to reinstate the previous rule which allow them to sit several times for IBA admission test.

On behalf of the aspirants, Eftekhar Ebney Alam made the demand at a press conference at DU's Madhur Canteen.

On September 16, the IBA authority issued a notice saying that only the students who passed the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations in 2015 could take part in the IBA entry test under 2015-16 academic session.

Students said earlier they could take the test several times till the age of 26 after completing HSC but this time aspirants, who took the test earlier, could not sit for the test.

Although the DU authorities issued a notice saying DU admission seekers would not get a second chance in the DU admission test, they did not mention anything about IBA there, students claimed.

IBA Director AKM Saiful Majid told The Daily Star that they discussed several times with the DU academic council, who took the decision, about students' demand but they did not change their decision.

The IBA authorities had to follow the decision of the academic council now, he added.