Dhaka, March 30 -- Class VI student Taiyeba of Bangshal Balika High School in Old Dhaka faces a daunting academic challenge: navigating her new Class VI syllabus while revisiting her Class V books to prepare for the rescheduled scholarship exam.

Although she has moved up a grade, she is being forced to dive back into her Class V textbooks to prepare for the primary scholarship examination, now rescheduled for Apr 15.

At the same time, her class tests for Class VI will take place in April and May, followed by half-yearly exams at the end of June.

The delay, caused by legal complications last year, has left hundreds of thousands of students facing a "double burden".

"The pressure on the child is immense," said Taiyeba's mother Shilpi Ak...