SSC review results likely on Sept 10

SSC re-scrutiny results may be published on September 10, with more than 400,000 candidates awaiting the outcome after seeking a review of over 1.29 million written and practical answer scripts.

The Inter-Education Board Coordination Committee has proposed September 10 for publishing the SSC re-scrutiny results, Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka Chairman Syed Aktaruzzaman said on Thursday.

The date will be finalised after approval from the education ministry, he said.

A total of 402,051 candidates applied for a review after failing to secure the results they had expected. They sought reassessment of 1.06 million answer scripts.

Of these, 231,471 scripts have practical components, taking the total number of written and practical scripts under review to 1.29 million.

The SSC and equivalent results were published on August 10, with an average pass rate of 62.25 percent, the lowest in 19 years. A total of 690,608 candidates failed.

Applications for re-scrutiny were accepted from August 11 to August 17 through a website developed under the education ministry’s Integrated Education Information Management System (IEIIMS) project.
Candidates were charged Tk 150 for each paper.

The review process is taking place under a new provision that allows answer scripts to be re-evaluated for the first time.

Education Minister ANM Ehsanul Hoque Milon announced the change on the day the SSC results were published.

Previously, re-scrutiny was limited to recounting marks under the Public Examination (Offences) Act 1980, without reassessing the answers themselves.

Parliament passed the Public Examinations (Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2026 on July 7, and it was gazetted on July 9.

Under the amended law, an examiner who over-assesses or under-assesses an answer script in a public examination can face up to two years in prison, a fine or both.

A third examiner will determine whether over-assessment or under-assessment has occurred.
The proposed September 10 publication date means candidates could soon learn whether the review has changed their results.