Allegations of leaking of question papers for various public examinations, including HSC, BCS and even competitive examinations for private employment, starting from the Primary Education Completion (PSC) of Bangladesh, are now quite old. Surely you know that due to leak of question paper, HSC examination (English 2nd paper) will be held on Thursday 10th April under Dhaka Education Board. Was suspended Which will take place on June 6 There is talk.

However, this is not the first time that question papers have been leaked in Bangladesh. This indicates a dire situation for the country’s education system and for future generations.

Bdnews24.com, the country’s leading online magazine on this important issue Wrote on the ‘Opinion-Analysis’ page Shahjalal University of Science and Technology Professor. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal. Here is his important writing:

“I am a very optimistic person. People I know are a little amused by my unbridled optimism, I don’t think so. The first reason is that because of this optimism, I spend my days happier than others. The second reason is that most of my hopes in my long life have come true.

I am always very optimistic about this country. I see with my own eyes that this country is no longer a country that has fallen into poverty. The country’s economy is much stronger than before. The people of our country are in many ways more at peace than the people of the economically strong side. I have learned such information from the writings of Amartya Sen.

Till now our country’s economy is being run by garment girls, expatriate workers and farm farmers. Educated people like us have not yet contributed to the economy of the country, but I am not disappointed at all. I always say loudly, our country’s school students are about 30 million (equal to Canada’s population). And when these students learn to read properly and stand by the side of the working people, then the face of the country will change.

I used to say this with a lot of emphasis. But a small sigh has been coming out of my chest before I said this since last week. Last week I was convinced that in this country, public exam questions are being leaked regularly and our government is regularly denying it.

Exams are an important part of learning. In a country like ours, the test is much more important. The reason is that all the students want to do well in the exam. So if the test is taken very well, that is, if the test method is correct, then the children learn everything while trying to do well in this test.

If we don’t have good schools, we don’t have good teachers, we don’t have good textbooks – but we have a very good examination system, we will still go a long way in our studies. When the creative test system came to the country, we were very happy. I was pretty sure that the students would not have to memorize anymore, now they would be able to study hard by thinking.

I never thought that the government of my country, the education system of the government would lose all their control over this test. They will let the test questions be leaked and they will not have the slightest sense of responsibility. I have done a lot at the request of the Ministry of Education of this government. Now I look at this ministry with a kind of wonder. I can’t believe my eyes when I see that they have no reaction to such a catastrophe in this country!

Not only the Ministry of Education has not responded, but newspapers and television channels have not. In the newspaper I read, the news of the leaked question paper was not printed, the editorial was not written, the country’s meritorious sub-editorial was not written.

I don’t get a chance to watch television, so I don’t know what’s going on there, but even for minor issues, television channels come to me to get my opinion. No one came this time, only one channel wanted to know from me. That’s what happened, because I wrote an article in the newspaper, putting the leaked question and the test question side by side.

This is not my job, it’s up to the journalists. For some unknown reason, the biggest catastrophe of Bangladesh’s future did not get any importance from the media. If the whole nation has become accustomed to the leaking of question papers and the newspapers believe that it is not really news now, then we have never been in greater danger than this.

After looking at the leaked HSC question papers with my own eyes, I did research and now I know for sure that the PSC and JSC question papers were also leaked. The parents or teachers of these small children have raised the questions in their hands and taught them. The children read them and went to the test and discovered that they were the ones who came to the test.

I don’t know if there was surprise, panic or greed in their minds then, but I know for sure it was the first step in teaching children state corruption. One or two children may learn to do wrong from what is happening around them, but a state can teach the whole child society of the country to be corrupt, which is probably not the case anywhere else in the world.

Our Ministry of Education has not acknowledged the incidents, so no one in Bangladesh still knows that such an act is unjust. Those who leaked the question papers are not yet criminals under the law of this country. Punishment of the perpetrator is a much later matter, but the question is whether this crime has not yet been declared by this government.

If the government does not acknowledge the leaked question, how can it punish someone for committing such a heinous crime? Those who are involved in leaking questions, those who are mixing the whole education system of this country with dust, cannot be identified and punished as criminals – I do not understand why.

If the Ministry of Education thinks that people will forget about an injustice and a crime if they do not open their mouths, then they need to be reminded that this is not true. Every person in this country knows about this incident; Especially since all the young people are drowning in despair due to this questioning, but no one will be freed from their curse.

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The first time a girl called me and told me that the question was leaked, I asked her for the leaked questions. He also sent the test question paper after the test. Apart from the leaked question paper, I was injured when I saw the test question for other reasons. How is it that the question of the exam that millions of students are taking is created so carelessly? There is no one to help the question paper preparation committee to draw more beautiful pictures than the disgusting pictures used in the question!

The most bizarre thing is that no one even felt the need to type and write the mantuku that the poles need to convey in order to solve a problem! The question paper has been written in almost incomprehensible handwriting with utmost negligence. It is obvious that no one has any problem in preparing, typing or printing the question papers. I do not agree that such an important test question paper could not have been given more importance.

There is much more evidence of extreme negligence in the examination question papers. Many students have complained to me that there are many big mistakes in the questions of those who are taking exams through English. There are errors in the question of physics, which may cause sky-deep differences in the answer.

There are more problems besides negligence. The students complained that 80 percent of the questions in the biology exam were selected from the guide book. They also mentioned the name of the guide book to me.

I am not a journalist. If I was a journalist, I could verify their complaint. I don’t have a chance to verify at the moment, but it is possible to verify. If it is seen that the questions are really taken from the guide book then can’t action be taken against those who asked questions?

Can anyone tell me how many questions have been leaked in the history of this country, but has any action ever been taken against anyone? Have any people ever been handcuffed and taken into custody?

Nowadays, due to a special social networking called Facebook, it has become very easy to distribute the leaked questions among everyone. In this direction, Bangladesh has entered the true digital age. From time to time I see young people being caught and jailed by the police or the RAB for saying something unsolicited on Facebook. But when leaked questions are publicly traded using Facebook, why aren’t any of them ever caught? How do they always stay out of reach?

Can I ask the Ministry of Education a very clear question? Is the question paper really leaked? If it is leaked then what is the crime? If there is a crime, has any case been filed to catch those criminals? I have personal acquaintances with many in the Ministry of Education. Would any of you please answer my question?

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I wrote a short article last week about the leaked question paper. Then many people contacted me and talked about how to stop leaking question papers using information technology.

In fact, unless the government acknowledges the leaking of the questionnaire, declaring it a crime and punishing the perpetrators, no information technology system will actually work.

If the government admits that this horrible thing has happened and starts trying to catch the culprits and punish them, then there is no need to do anything else. In the same way that the question papers are prepared and distributed, the test can be taken without leaking the questions.

The truth is, the question is not actually leaked, the question is allowed to be leaked.

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I have been feeling very bad for a few days thinking about the children of this country. Scholarships are given in the talent pool for children who have appeared for PSC or JSC examinations. Those who have received scholarships have written to me saying that although they have passed the exam without any leaked questions, everyone is now looking at them with crooked eyes and making various insults.

Many of those who have not received scholarships have told me that many have received scholarships with bad exams; Because they have people to catch upstairs. Since this scholarship is given to the general public on the basis of the actual number obtained in the secret examination, the whole system is actually terribly opaque!

The allegations of these children are not true, no one can say for sure. The grading system has been introduced and numbers have been given away – but that number also determines the future of a student and no one will ever know. I don’t understand how everyone is enduring such a big opaque matter day after day.

Those who have taken HSC exams have become a little older. Now that is the age at which they begin to dream. Their dreams are being shattered before they even start dreaming and the saddest thing is those who are supposed to dream. There is a kind of guilt working in those who read the leaked question papers (I have heard that mothers have created a Facebook account for their children to study to get the leaked questions).

Those who have taken the test in the leaked question paper are trying to reduce the guilt by making various arguments for themselves and that is the first step in learning corruption. These children, however, did not want to commit corruption on their own, they were forced to do so.

Those who took the test without using the leaked question now have intense frustration and anger at the same time. One word in their mouths, “If everyone gets good marks in exams with leaked questions, then what is the use of me paying so much attention throughout the year?”

After the results of the HSC examination come out and the admission test is started in different universities, then these children will be the most affected. We tell them truth and justice, but we cherish untruth and injustice – can anyone else give an example of such great hypocrisy?

The big hartakartas of the Ministry of Education, the big people of the government live in peace. Little children, teenagers in this country, young people can’t go near them. They drive under police guard, they don’t have to read letters, they don’t have to look at e-mails. These children, teenagers and young people can come to people like me. I do not know what to say to them when they complain to me about their anger.

Even then I try to comfort them, I tell them in the end the truth will prevail, the unjust will be called unjust, the crime will be considered a crime. Everything will be started anew by washing away all the garbage. The new generation will surely be able to do what our generation could not do.

The biggest asset of our country, the biggest strength is the students of this school-college. I would like to request all the people of the country to pay taxes, do not neglect them and push them away.

Let them grow up with their heads held high with self-respect. ”

Muhammad Zafar Iqbal: Writer and professor, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.