The education ministry on Thursday postponed this year鈥檚 Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent聽 examinations in the Sylhet division till July 8 following the worsening flood situation.
From July 9, the examinations in the Sylhet division would continue as per schedule, said Dhaka Education Board chairman professor Tapan Kumar Sarkar.
The exams are scheduled to be started from June 30 across the country.
The ongoing flood affected at least 17 exam centres under the Sylhet district till Thursday.
Tapan Kumar Sarkar, also chief of the inter-education board coordination committee, said that the routine of the deferred examinations would be published later for the division.
The exams will be held as per schedule in other divisions from June 30, the professor added.
According to a report of the Sylhet district education office, issued on Thursday, flood water entered 10 exam centres under Sylhet Sadar, Dakkhin Surma, Biswanath, Jaintapur, Balaganj, Companiganj, Fenchuganj and Kanaighat upazilas.
Nine centres under Sylhet sadar, Zakiganj, Osmaniganj, Kanaighat, Gopalganj, Companiganj, Fenchuganj, and Dakkhin Surma are being used as shelters for the flood affected people.
Nearly one-and-half million people were marooned in three days as fresh flood struck Sylhet and surrounding districts due to a heavy downpour and continuous onrush of water from upstream Meghalaya and Assam states of India.
Earlier on May 28, a flash flood also affected more than one million people in the district, including 30 wards out of 42 in the city, adding immense sufferings to the flood-stricken people, who have suffered from another devastating flood in less than three weeks.
Earlier on June 5, education minister Mohibul Hassan Chowdhury said that this year鈥檚 HSC and equivalent examinations would be postponed in areas where flood would affect.
A total of 14,50,790 students 鈥� 7,50,281 male and 7,00,509 female students聽 鈥� are expected to sit for the exams at 2,725 centres, from 9,463 educational institutions this year.
The theoretical part of the exams will be held between June 30 and August 11 and the practical part of the exams will be held between August 12 and August 21.
All coaching centres across the country will remain closed from June 29 to August 11 to keep the exam environment free from copying and rumours of question paper leaks.