The results of primary scholarship examinations will be published between 25-28 February. Secretary of the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education (MoPME) Farid Ahmed disclosed the information at a press conference in the conference room of the secretariat on Tuesday. “DPE Director General Shah Rezwan confirmed the matter,” he said. Due to the Covid-19 epidemic, the Primary Education Completion (PEC) examination has been suspended since 2020, and the government scrapped the PEC examinations last year. The primary scholarship examination was held in December, 2022, 13 years after the last one  in 2008. A total of six lakh fifth-graders took part in the examination on 30 December 2022. Among them, 80,000 students will get scholarships. State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Zakir Hossain was also present there.