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Bangladesh
Re-scrutiny or a re-sit? For most of the 594,113, only one of the two doors is open
A paid re-check and a re-sit answer different problems. Choosing by how disappointed you feel is the expensive way to decide.
Bangladesh
Tk 150 a paper: the re-scrutiny arithmetic, and the two rules that cost people money
The fee is charged per paper, which is not how students think about their subjects. Here is what a realistic application actually comes to.
Bangladesh
Re-scrutiny or re-evaluation? The portal and the notices do not use the same word
Two Bangla words describe two different things, and Tk 150 a paper is being charged without either document explaining which one you are…
Bangladesh
The re-scrutiny portal is shut until Sunday — four things to settle before it opens
Visiting rescrutiny.eduboardresults.gov.bd today returns a holding page. The useful work tonight is deciding which papers, and on which…
Bangladesh
How to apply for HSC re-scrutiny: the portal, the seven days and the Tk 150 a paper
The Dhaka board has published the rules. Everything happens on one website, nothing is accepted manually, and the fee cannot be returned…
Bangladesh
How result day actually works now: three channels, an EIIN download, and no counter anywhere
A system that used to mean crowds outside a board office is now three digital channels. The change is almost complete, and it has moved the…
Bangladesh
Board by board: Cumilla at 48.04%, Sylhet at a 13-year low, the technical board at 49.43%
Eleven boards, and the ones that have reported sit in a narrow and uniformly low band. The madrasah board is the one that breaks the…
Bangladesh
Inside one education board, the pass rate runs from 66.20% to 29.85%
The board average hides a gap of more than 36 points between the city and the hill districts in the same examination.
Bangladesh
Girls passed by 8.56 points more than boys, and boys took GPA-5 by 642
The two statistics point opposite ways, and the gap between them is the interesting part rather than either number alone.
Bangladesh
293 colleges where nobody passed, and 139 where everybody did — both tails moved the wrong way
The average tells you less than the distribution does. One end quadrupled in two years; the other lost three-fifths of its members in one.
World
Webb has photographed stars being born inside N159, and the colours in the picture are a chemical readout
The orange is light from carbon-based molecules; the dark red filaments are cold hydrogen shielding the new stars. The picture is data, not…
World
Two blockchain analysis firms name North Korea’s Lazarus Group over the Binance theft — the same unit the FBI blamed for Bybit
Attribution in cyber-attacks is usually hedged. Two firms saying “high confidence” about the same unit, days after the event, is unusually…