Admission to Class-I in govt schools thru' lottery
Distribution of forms begins tomorrow
For the first time in the country, candidate selections for admission in class one of 317 state-run schools (which have classes from I -X) will be made through lottery.
However, the selection procedure for admission to all other classes (from class II to class IX) will remain the same. The candidates will have to take admission tests of 100 marks.
The decision was taken in an education ministry meeting yesterday presided over by Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid.
The meeting hoped that this would end the psychological torment a pre-school child has to go through to get a spot in those schools.
Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education Director General Prof Noman-ur-Rashid and headmasters of all the city's state run schools were present at the meeting.
Prof Noman said, "The decision includes that freedom fighter's children will enjoy five percent quota facilities while the disabled will get two percent."
However, the meeting directed all the schools to finish the admission test within December 31 and begin classes on January 1 next year.
Lottery forms for the class one admission, costing Tk 100 each, can be found in all 371 schools, including 24 in the capital, from December 8 to December 14.
Schools across the country except those in the capital will conduct the lottery on December 21, 22 and 23.
Admission tests will be held in the capital's 24 schools on December 18, 19 and 20 but the schools across the county will fix up their own date of admission.
All state run schools across the country will supply the admission forms of class one to 10 from December 8 and the deadline of form submission is December 14.
Meanwhile, Viqarunnisa Noon School and College of the capital will publish the primary selection list of 16,640 candidates for class one for all the four branches of the school.
The lottery will be held on December 21 and 22, said Hosne Ara Begum, principal of the institution.
The list of the selected candidates will be found at the notice board of school branches, she added.
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