SSC Exams
24pc drop out in Sylhet board
About 24 percent of the students, who had registered in class nine for appearing in the SSC Examination under Sylhet Board this year, dropped out before the examination that is scheduled to begin on February1.
The education board officials, however, claimed that this year's drop out percentage is much lower compared to last year's 32.72 percent.
Md Manir Uddin, examination controller of Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education (BISE), Sylhet, said the drop outs were mainly due to marriage, failure in class examinations and other reasons.
In total, 57,308 students registered for the SSC examination while in class nine, of which only 43,555 students will be appearing in the examination at current.
The total number of examinees this year under Sylhet Board is 58,476, including 43,555 regular students, 14,915 irregular students of previous years, and 6 improvement examinees.
This total examinees figure, including 25,893 boys and 32,537 girls, has gone up from last year's 48,527.
The number of girl examinees is also more than that of boys like previous year.
The SSC examination will be held at 72 centres in the division, with each of the centre having a vigilance team while four mobile teams will be present in each of the districts, the board officials said.
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