The Bangladesh International School Dammam (BISD) is located in Dammam

Dammam

Dammam is the capital of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, the most oil-rich region in the world. The judicial and administrative bodies of the province and several government departments are located in the city. Dammam is the largest city in the Eastern Province and third largest in Saudi...

, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. The school

School

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 has two sections:

• The school section - Grade KG to Grade X
• The college section - Grade XI to Grade XII

History

H E Hedayet Ahmed, then Ambassador

Ambassador

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 of Bangladesh

Bangladesh

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, proposed the school as a part of the education and cultural wing of the Bangladesh Embassy in Saudi Arabia. It was established on 1 January 1987. AK Azad runs the school as Vice Principal.

Curriculum

BISD follows the University of Cambridge Local Examination Syndicate

UCLES

University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate is a non-teaching department of the University of Cambridge and is a not-for-profit organisation...

 (UCLES) for its course structure. Students appear for their 'O' level examination after completing Grade X under UCLES and 'A' level examination after completing Grade XII under UCLES. Both of the examinations take place with the supervision of the British Council

British Council

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 situated in Eastern Province.

Achievements

At the 2006 British Council annual awards ceremony, Muhammad Ehsanul Hoque was honoured for achieving first place in mathematics

Mathematics

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 and economics

Economics

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 at 'A' level. Akil Muhammad Habibullah was ranked first in chemistry

Chemistry

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 at 'O' level.

At the graduation

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ceremony, in May 2007, it was announced that in 2006 the school had a 100 per cent success rate for students in their final examinations.