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New Pattern Of 8chool Education Prof, S. Nurul Hasan The adoption of the common pattern of 10+2+3 for school and college classes has been an important reform whose implementation has long been overdue. The reform was first recommended, about 55 years ago, by the Calcutta University Commission (1917–19). At that time, the Matriculation Examination, which marked the end of the school course and also constituted an entrance examination to the universities, was held in different provinces at the end of 10–12 years of schooling. But in spite of this large variation of the duration of the school stage, these examinations, though conducted by different agencies, were regarded as equivalent to each other in all parts of the country. The Matriculation Examination was followed by a two-year intermediate course at the end of which another public examination, the Intermediate Examination was held. Then came a two-year period of undergraduate education after which the First Degree Examination was held. All these three examinations—Matriculation, Intermediate and First Degree—were held by the universities. The Commission examined in depth the content of education at the intermediate and the undergraduate stages and came to the following conclusion: 3