Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman yesterday said the government has decided to drop Multiple Choice Question from Primary Education Completion (PEC) exams from this year.

State Minister for Education Kazi Keramat Ali tells the parliament that multiple choice questions [MCQ] will be dropped in phases in public examinations to prevent question paper leak.

The University Grants Commission has proposed introducing written examinations along with the existing multiple choice question in the admission tests for public universities.

The student who will have the skill to analyse all the information of the text will be able to pick the fourth option as the correct answer. So, it is unwise to say that students don't learn anything from MCQs and is easy to get higher marks.

Secondary school students are increasingly turning to guidebooks and private tuition due to heavy curriculum and complex textbooks, say leading academics and educationists. The question papers of public examinations at secondary level are faulty and of low standard, they said at a view-exchange meeting yesterday.

Prominent educationists today give their opinions for abolishing the section of multiple-choice questions (MCQ) from all examinations in the secondary level.