Devaluation (or, I Be A Sea Student)
The grading scale posted at educationboard.gov.bd, the Education Board Computer Center in Dhaka, Bangladesh:
Class Interval Letter Grade Grade Point
80-100 A+ 5
70-79 A 4
60-69 A- 3.5
50-59 B 3
40-49 C 2
33-39 D 1
0-32 F 0
Perhaps the person who coded the website is a D student. Examine this critique from The StoryTeller (and note that English is not The StoryTeller's first language; The StoryTeller's English is light years better than my command of any Asian language):
just a few minutes ago I have visitted
http://www.educationboard.gov.bd and look what I have seen
Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in
/home/educatio/public_html/search.php on line 39
And Then I refresh the page and I have seen this
Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in
/home2/educatio/public_html/search.php on line 39
So what do u understand from this?? The developer used connection
pulling for load balancing. But alas, He never understood that the
error resides in the line 39 LOL
He used mysql_connect() instead of persistant mysql_pconnect() —–
oh poor developer. I never understand why people dosent use persistent
connections.
Despite their failure to use persistent connections, this website is a major dissemination source for information:
The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination results under seven education boards will be published in the afternoon today.
The results of secondary certificate examination under Vocational Education Board and Madrasa Education Board will also be published simultaneously.
Chairmen of nine education boards will hand over the summary results to the prime minister at her office at 1:00 pm....
Guardians and students can also collect the results through the website'www.educationboard.gov.bd'.
This year about 7.60 lakh candidates took the SSC examination that started on March 10 and continued till April 7.
Some 37,000 candidates appeared at the SSC vocational examination.
And I'm sure that many C students rejoiced. Well, not that many:
Bangladesh lacks sufficient numbers of schools and cultural institutions, even though facilities were increased substantially in the 1970s....
Public education in Bangladesh generally follows the model established by the British prior to 1947. Primary school education is free, but at least one-third of all children are not enrolled in school. Poor school attendance is a major reason for a literacy rate of only 35 per cent for Bangladeshis aged 15 and older. In the period 1990 to 1991, the country had about 48,140 primary schools, with a total annual enrolment of some 13 million pupils, and about 9,700 secondary schools, with a combined yearly enrolment of about 3.6 million.
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