The success rate in this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent exams has stood at 77.77 percent.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid, accompanied by the heads of the education boards, handed over a summary of the results to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Ganabhaban on Sunday.
Nahid will highlight key features of the school-leaving exam results at a news conference at the Secretariat at 1pm. Students will be able to check their results after the press conference, around 2pm.
The success rate has dropped from last year, but the number of students scoring a GPA 5.0 increased this year to stand at 110,629.
Last year 80.35 percent of students cleared the SSC exams and 104,761 scored a GPA 5.0.
A total of 2,031,889 students took the SSC and equivalent exams under ten education boards this year and 1,443,382 passed.
The success rate for the SSC exams under eight general education boards was 79.4 percent, the pass rate for the madrasa board’s Dakhil exam was 70.89 percent and that of the technical board exam was 71.96 percent, Minister Nahid said while presenting the summary to the PM.
Speaking at the ceremony, Prime Minister Hasina said, “This year 77.77 percent students cleared the exams. I congratulate them as well as those who did not, because they had given an effort.”
She asked parents not to come down hard on students who failed. “They should be encouraged to do better in the future.”
A 100 percent educated nation is the prerequisite for poverty-free country, said Hasina.
“Education is something no one can take away from you,” she told students.