Education minister requests extending DU admission application deadline

The Education Minister made this request while speaking as the chief guest at the 42nd annual conference of the Bangladesh Chemical Society (BCS) at the Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Building of Dhaka University on Saturday morning. The conference was organized under the theme ‘Chemistry-related innovations to tackle future challenges’.

The Education Minister said, ‘The Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University has set the admission application deadline as 25 November. I will request him to extend the deadline by a few more days — so that students whose results improve as a result of re-examination can also get the opportunity to apply for admission.’

He said that this year the pass rate in the HSC examination was not as expected, and as a result many students applied for re-examination of their results. It is necessary to take into consideration that if their results change, the opportunity to apply for university admission should not be closed in any way. The Education Minister said that the re-examination of HSC examination answer scripts began on 7 November and will end on 23 November; the re-examination results will be published on that day.

Highlighting this year’s HSC results and re-examination information, he said that the grades of about 45,000 students have changed. Among them, about five thousand students who had previously failed passed after re-examination. In addition, the GPA of 3,079 students increased. He further said that this year a new law was passed in the National Parliament by amending the law of 1980; through this law of 2026, the authority to re-examine examination scripts has been given.