Students Sit for Two Hours Before Learning They Were Given a 2025 Question Paper: What Kind of Farce Is This?

❐ District Correspondent

There were allegations of HSC exams being conducted using the wrong question paper in Kishoreganj, Nilphamari. Later, the time was extended to 2:20 pm and the exams were conducted using the correct question paper.

The incident took place on Sunday morning, July 19, during the history paper 1 exam held at the Baravita School and College center in Kishoreganj upazila. There is a lot of criticism about it. Parents expressed their anger, alleging that students’ lives were being played with.

The examinees said that the History Paper 1 examination started at 10 am. At that time, the examinees were given the question paper of 2025. Accordingly, the students continued to take the exam with wrong questions from 10 am to 11:45 am.

Later, when the mistake was discovered, the central authorities suspended the exam and distributed the correct question paper for 2026. Then, the time was extended for the new questions and the exam was conducted until 2:20 pm.

A student named Biplob said, “The exam started this morning. At first, we didn’t understand, but after two and a half hours, we realized that the question was from 2025. Later, when we told the teacher, they changed it.”

Another student, Arif, said, “I suffered a great loss due to the negligence of our teachers. They gave us the wrong questions. After we took the exam, we found out that our question was wrong. They changed it and extended the exam time.”

Test taker Bahadur Shah said, “Today we had a history exam. When we finished writing four creative answers in two rooms, a teacher came and gave us a new question paper. By then, about two and a half hours had passed. We had to write seven creative answers again. We then took the exam until 2:20 pm.”

In this regard, Badsha Alamgir, principal and central secretary of Baravita School and College, claimed, “We took the exam with the right questions.”

When I told him about the complaints of multiple students, he hung up the phone, saying he was busy.

Upazila Executive Officer (UNO) Arifur Rahman said, “We are forming an investigation committee in this regard. There were 490 examinees, 479 of whom were present today, but it is not the case that this incident happened in all the rooms.”

In this regard, Upazila Secondary Education Officer Ashrafuzzaman said, “I am currently in a meeting. I am aware of the matter, we are sitting with the UNO on this issue.”