Dhaka, April 23 -- Almost 27,000 students have skipped the Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations on the second day of the tests.

According to the Inter-Education Board Coordination Committee, a total of 26,865 candidates did not show up across 3,885 centres nationwide on Thursday.

The statistics provided by the committee show that the highest number of absentees came from the nine general education boards, with 12,316 students absent out of nearly 1.12 million registered.

This was followed closely by the Madrasa Education Board (Dakhil), where 12,150 students were absent out of 253,882 registered.

In the Technical Education Board (vocational), 2,399 students were absent out of 120,160 registered.

Among the general ...