Junior School Certificate

The Junior School Certificate (JSC) was a public examination taken by students in Bangladesh after successful completion of eight years of schooling. It was introduced in 2010. It is followed by the Secondary School Certificate (SSC).[1]

Before the SSC was introduced, an exam was taken in its place (then known as Madhyamik Britti or Junior Scholarship). This was a voluntary vocational exam and not mandatory, which were later made mandatory and renamed as junior school certificate.

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the exams could not be held in 2020 and 2021. The government also decided not to hold the Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations in 2022.[2] In 2023, The ministry of education of Bangladesh stated that there will be no JSC-JDC examination in the new curriculum. From 2024, class VIII and class IX exams will be held under the new syllabus.[3]

  1. ^ "Central Data Catalog". unesco.org. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  2. ^ Nafiu, Rummana Foisal (2023-01-17). "No JSC, JDC exams this year". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  3. ^ "Govt scraps JSC, JDC exams". The Daily Star. 2023-01-17. Retrieved 2023-08-10.