Supplementary exams for those who failed one or two HSC subjects from 1 December, form fill-up from 5 November

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Supplementary exams for those who failed one or two subjects in this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations will begin on 1 December. Those wishing to sit the exams can fill in forms online from 5 to 9 November, and the exam fee can be paid until 10 November.

This was learnt today (Monday) from a form fill-up notice signed by Professor Jesmin Taslima Banu, controller of examinations of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka.

Dhaka Education Board Chairman Professor Syed Aktaruzzaman had said earlier that there is a plan to complete holding the exams for those who failed one or two HSC subjects, evaluating the answer scripts and publishing the results between 2 and 31 December.

At a press conference at the Secretariat on 30 October marking the publication of the results, Education Minister A N M Ehsanul Hoque Milon said re-examinations for those who failed one or two subjects in the HSC and equivalent exams would be held within a month.

Under the current rules, anyone who fails one or more subjects in a public examination such as the SSC or HSC has to sit the exam again the following year. They then have the option of taking the exam in the failed subjects only, or in all subjects if they wish.

An analysis of the results shows that 298,040 students failed one subject this year and 124,865 failed two subjects. That means a total of 422,905 students failed one or two subjects. In all, 594,113 students failed.

Meanwhile, applications for re-scrutiny of HSC results will be accepted until 7 November. The date for publishing the re-scrutiny results has been set for 27 November.

Background

According to a Prothom Alo report, until now those who failed one or more HSC subjects had to wait a full year for the following year’s exams; this time, at the briefing on the day the results were published, the education minister, accompanied by the Prime Minister’s Adviser Mahdi Amin, announced the decision to hold re-examinations within a month.

By the numbers

According to Prothom Alo, 1,270,583 candidates sat the exams under 11 education boards this year; the pass rate was 52.12 percent and 40,084 obtained GPA-5.

In 2025 the pass rate was 58.83 percent, and 69,097 obtained GPA-5 in the initial results — the same report contains this information.

Sources

Background sources: Prothom Alo, 31 October 2026; Prothom Alo, 31 October 2026