Dhaka, Feb. 18 -- The 2026 Secondary School Certificate (SSC) pre-selection and selection exams have been postponed by more than a month after the syllabus was changed and students in Class 10 received their textbooks a bit late.

The pre-selection exams were to start on Jun 24, but will instead begin Sept 1. The selection exams to be held from Oct 16 have been postponed to Nov 20, reports bdnews24.com.

The Secondary and Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education has revised the holiday list and syllabus for secondary and lower secondary schools accordingly.

On Tuesday afternoon, Rahima Akhtar, deputy secretary of the department's Government Secondary Branch, told bdnews24.com: "A notification has been issued to revise the...