Only Two Eligible for English Department of Dhaka University!

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Only 2 (two) students are eligible to enroll at English Department of Dhaka University (DU) after the Arts Faculty took the entrance test.

The department will enroll 150 students as freshers, and 125 among them will come from those who sat for 'Kha' Unit test under the Arts Faculty. The rest will be taken from those who sat for 'Gha' Unit test on September 26, 2014.

Experts say only two passed under the newly set requirements for the English Department. The situation has worried university authorities who are now thinking of suspending the department's entry requirements.

"We won't leave one seat empty", 'Kha' Unit test coordinator and Arts Faculty Dean Professor Sadrul Amin said that. "But we'll decide later how that can be achieved."

Students seeking to enter the premier public university's English Department need a combined score of 200 in English in SSC and HSC examinations. They must answer compulsory 'Elective English' questions during admission test. They must secure minimum 20 marks in 'General English' and 15 in 'Elective English'.

The results for 'Kha' Unit tests, held on September 19, and results out on September 23. Only 3,874 of 40,565 who took the tests passed while 2,221 seats are available. The results pasted on the Faculty of Arts' notice board shows that one Jannatul Ferdous Dola, placed third on the merit list, and Shahbaz Amin Bhuiyan, at 106, have matched the entry requirements.

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Account BenefitOnly 17 of the 3,874 who passed answered 'Elective English' questions. Fifteen among them could not secure the necessary 15 marks in 'Elective English'.

Dean Professor Sadrul Amin could not say how many among the 40,565 candidates attempted to answer the questions under that category. "There are around 1,700 who did", he said. Meanwhile, Professor Amin held meetings with the department's teachers to discuss how their classrooms can be filled with students who meet the mark.

"The entry test could not get students with our requirements, so we sat to discuss the issue", English Department Chairperson Professor Tahmina Ahmed said. "Everyone there favored suspending the conditions. We'll send this proposal to the admission committee. It will take effect if they approve it."
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