Sun News Desk: Due to severe floods in Sylhet division, the SSC examination, which is scheduled to start from June 19 across the country, has been postponed. Information and Public Relations Officer M A Khair of Ministry of Education confirmed the matter on Friday (June 17).

He said the SSC General, SSC Vocational and Dakhil examinations of all education boards starting from June 19 have been postponed due to deteriorating overall flood situation in the country. The changed examination schedule will be informed later.

Earlier, due to the inauguration of the Padma Bridge, it was decided to postpone the June 25 test by one day. But now all the tests have been postponed due to the floods.
The total number of candidates in SSC and equivalent examinations is 20 lakh 21 thousand 7. Last year there were 22 lakh 43 thousand 254 candidates.

This year, students from 29,519 educational institutions across the country under nine general education boards, madrasas and technical education boards are expected to take part in SSC, Dakhil and SSC (Vocational) examinations at 3,690 centers.

This time the exam time has been reduced from 3 hours to 2 hours. There will be 20 minutes for MCQ part of question paper and 1 hour 40 minutes for creative part.