Students of Motijheel Ideal School and College in the city using smartphones to receive their SSC exam results on Monday — FE photo by KAZ Sumon The results of this year's Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations, held under 10 education boards, were published on Monday, showing a pass percentage of 82.20, report agencies.
This year's pass rate is 4.43 per cent higher than that of last year.
Chairmen of the education boards handed over the results to Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni at the International Mother Language Institute in the city in the morning.
Later, the minister announced the results at a media briefing there.
The minister also read out a written speech of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the press conference.
The Prime Minister, now in London, also joined the programme through mobile phone and greeted all the successful students.
Sheikh Hasina asked the students who could not come out successful in the examinations to take preparations again.
A total of 1, 05,594 students secured the highest grade of GPA-5 in the examinations. Last year, the number of GPA-5 achievers was 110,629 under the 10 education boards, including eight general ones.
This year, girls performed better compared to boys as the pass rate among boys is 81.13 per cent while among girls it is 83.28 per cent.
The girls performed better than boys in terms of achieving GPA-5 as a total of 52,110 male students obtained the highest grade while the number of girls who obtained the GPA-5 is 53,484.
The pass rate is 82.80 per cent under eight general education boards, while it is 83.03 per cent under Madrasah Board and 72.24 per cent under the Technical Education Board.
Some 1.62 million students appeared at the examinations under eight general education boards, while 0.3 million under Madrasah Education Board and 0.12 million under the Technical Education Board.
The number of GPA-5 achievers under the eight boards are 94,556, while 6,287 under the Technical Education Board and 4,751 under the Madrasah Board.
The pass rate in Dhaka Board is 79.62 while 91.64 in Rajshahi Board, 87.16 in Cumilla Board, 90.88 in Jashore Board, 78.11 in Chattogram Board, 77.41 in Barishal Board, 70.83 in Sylhet Board and 84.10 in Dinajpur Board.
A total of 423 students appeared in the examinations from overseas centres. Among them, 389 students came out successfully in the examinations.
A total of 2583 schools under all the education boards in the country achieved 100 per cent pass rate this year while no student could pass the examinations from 107 schools.
The Rajshahi Board has topped the success rate in SSC and equivalent exams for the seventh consecutive year.
The results showed the pass rate of the board is 91.64 per cent, followed by Jashore with a 90.28 per cent pass rate.
Barishal clinched 77.81 per cent.
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