Students who took the National University’s fourth-year Honors Bachelor’s degree exam for 2024 can request a review of their exams starting Sunday, September 7. Applications can be submitted online until September 20, and the fee is 1,200 taka per exam.
The university issued the notice on Friday. The exam results were released on Monday, with a 65.10% pass rate among 232,624 candidates from 881 affiliated faculties across 31 subjects.
How to apply
Log in to the National University website and download the corresponding payment slip. Complete the online application and then make the payment.
Payment is processed through the university’s online payment platform. Mobile banking payments are accepted via Nagad, bKash, and Rocket, as well as American Express, Visa, DBBL, NEXUS, and MasterCard.
Once the application is complete, no mailing is required. The university states that no copies or proof of payment are necessary.
The deadline is absolute, and the risk is yours
The notice is unusually clear on this point, so it’s worth reiterating.
Applications, payment receipt downloads, and fee payments cannot be made before or after the stated deadline. If the fee is not paid within this deadline, the application will not be considered submitted; a completed form with an unpaid fee does not constitute an application.
Furthermore, the university explicitly states that it will not be held responsible for any complications arising from this process. If a mobile banking transaction fails on the evening of September 20, it will be the student’s responsibility, not the university’s.
Apply early. There is no argument to be had on the 21st.
What does a challenge actually involve?
Here is the question the notice does not answer, and it matters at this price.
A challenge to an exam can mean two very different things. It can mean that someone recalculates the scores and verifies that nothing was omitted. Or it can mean that an examiner reviews the answers and re-grades them. These are very different processes with very different probabilities of changing a grade.
This distinction is currently being applied in Bangladesh. When the education boards managed the review of SSC exams in August, they moved for the first time from a simple arithmetic check to a genuine re-evaluation, and they hired additional examiners to carry it out. Until this year, challenging an SSC exam only meant recalculating the total.
The notice from the National University does not specify which of these processes applies. A student who challenges four exams incurs an expense of 4,800 taka without knowing if anyone will review their answers again.
Before you pay
- Work only from the notice on the National University website. The university has explicitly warned students not to rely on any other source
- Decide which papers to challenge on evidence, not hope. The fee is per paper and does not scale down
- Complete the payment days before the deadline rather than on it
- Keep the transaction reference, even though the university does not ask for the Pay Slip
- Note that 20 September is also the last day of LLB First Part form fill-up, and the postponed Honours first year paper falls on 22 September. National University has three deadlines inside 72 hours
The four-year cumulative grade point average (CGPA) results for this cohort have not yet been announced, nor has a release date been given. Students who file a paper challenge now will do so without knowing how the final CGPA is calculated or when it will be published.
Rising Barta will report the four-year CGPA results and the outcome of the paper challenge process when the National University announces them.
