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This year's Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations have begun across the country this Saturday morning.
The examinations are being held under the ten education boards that will continue till February 26 while the practical examinations will be held from February 27 to March 5.
A total of 2,135,333 students - 1,070,441 boys and 1,064,892 girls - are expected to appear at the examinations from 28,682 institutions in 3,497 centres.
Of them, 1,700,102 will sit for the SSC examinations under eight general education boards while 310,172 for Dakhil exam under the Madrasah Education Board and 125,059 for vocational exam under the Bangladesh Technical Education Board.
The number of total examinees is 103,434 higher than last year's and the number of institutions is 131 up.
A total of 434 students will sit for the examinations from eight overseas centres as well.
Besides, no one except for an examination centre secretary will be allowed to carry a mobile phone and no outsiders are allowed to enter centres, says a UNB report.
A day before yesterday, Thursday, Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni assured that there would be no incident of question paper leakage during the public examinations this time.
While briefing reporters on the examinations at the Secretariat, she also urged teachers, students and guardians not to pay heed to any rumour.
In efforts to facilitate the fair holding of the examinations, all coaching centres across the country have also been announced shut by the government for a month from January 27 to 27 February.