Dhaka: The Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations will begin across the country on Tuesday.

This year, a total of 2,412,775 examinees -- 1,124, 373 males and 1,288,402 females -- will appear in the JSC and JDC examinations.

The number of female students has marked a rise by 164,029 this time compared to the previous year.

The examinations will continue till November 17 and the results will be published within December 30.

Students from 28,761 educational institutions will appear for the examinations to be held simultaneously at 2,734 centres across the country.

Some 103,653 irregular students will take part in the JSC examination while 18,021 in JDC and the number of special students in JSC is 91,861 while in JDC it is 14,698.

Besides, some 681 examinees will appear in the examination from eight overseas countries.