Disappointment is writ large on the faces of these students of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College in Dhaka on Saturday as they look at the notice board for JSC and JDC results. — FE photo by Shafiqul Alam Results for this year's Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) were published on Saturday, reporting a fall in the success rate, report agencies.
The success rate for this year's JSC exams stood at 83.65 per cent, against 93.06 per cent in 2016.
The JDC exams saw 86.80 per cent pass rate this year, compared to 94.02 per cent last year.
On the other hand, the success rate in the 2017 Primary Education Completion (PEC) exams is 95.18 per cent and Ebtedayee exam 92.94 per cent as the results for these exams were also published on the day.
The number of students who scored GPA 5.0 in JSC exams fell to 191,628 from 247,558 last year.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina published the JSC and JDC results on the day after Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid, accompanied by the chairpersons of the education boards, handed over copies of the results to her at her official residence Ganabhaban.
Nearly 24.69 million eighth-graders in schools and madrasas took the exam this year administered by the education boards. Allegations are there that most of the questions were leaked on Facebook.
Education Minister Nahid briefed the media on several aspects of the JSC-JDC results at the Secretariat at 2:00 pm.
Students will have to type 'JSC/DAKHIL<space>the first three letters of the board's name<space>roll number<space>2017' and send the message to 16222 to receive the results in an SMS response.
The results will also be available on the education boards' website, educationboardresults.gov.bd.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina also received copies of results in PEC and Ebtedaye exams on the day at Ganabhaban. Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman handed over copies of the results to her.
The success rate for this year's PEC exams for school students stands at 95.18 per cent while 92.94 per cent madrasa-goers cleared the Ebtedayee exams.
The PEC and Ebtedayee primary school completion exams were taken by 3,096,075 students at 7,267 exam centres between Nov 19 and Nov 26.
Success rate for the PEC exams fell from previous year's 98.51 per cent. The case for the Ebtedayee exams is similar-a drop from last year's 95.85 per cent.
A total of 262,609 students scored GPA 5 in the PEC exams and 5,023 in the Ebtedayee exams.
"The success rate is good…Our students are meritorious. They will study and pass the exams; there's no question of being unsuccessful," Hasina said after officially releasing the results of this year's exams.
The primary education minister presented the highlights of the results at a media call later at his office, after which individual results were available to students at their institutions.
Results are also available through mobile phone text messages.
A student will have to type 'DPE<space>Upazila code<space>roll number<space>2017' and send the message to 16222 to get the result in a return SMS.
Ebtedayee students will have to type 'EBT' in place of 'DPE'.
The codes are available on the DPE (directorate of primary education) website, and at the schools and local education department offices.
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