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Primary Scholarship Exam – To Be or Not To Be!
There was a time when primary scholarship was conducted after completing the annual examination of class five. Usually, the students who occupied top positions in the internal examinations were allowed to sit for this examination. The successful examinees used to obtain monthly scholarship money, and these students were tagged as ‘scholars. Similar things happened in the SSC and HSC examinations, where several top-level students occupied positions on the education boards. That was abolished to give students a GPA. Both systems have merits. The primary scholarship examination was stopped after introducing the Primary Education Completion Examination 2009. Since then, not only the...
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