A total of 2583 educational institutions achieved 100 percent pass rate in this year’s SSC and equivalent examinations, while the number was 1574 last year.
Of those, 146 institutions are from Dhaka, 431 from Rajshahi, 132 from Cumilla, 275 from Jashore, 30 from Chattogram, 50 from Barishal, 22 from Sylhet, 138 from Dinajpur, while 1263 are under Madrasa Board and 96 under Bangladesh Technical Education Board (BTEB).
The chairmen of the education boards handed over the results to Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni at the International Mother Language Institute in Dhaka on Monday (May 6).
Later, she announced the results at a media briefing.
A total of 2,135,333 students – 1,064,892 female and 1,070, 441 male – appeared in the SSC and equivalent examinations this year under the 10 education boards.
Of them, 1,694,652 students appeared in the SSC examinations under the eight general educational boards.
Like previous years, results can be known through sending SMS from any mobile operator. To know the results, one will have to write in such way (SSC [space] first three letters of respective boards [space] and then have to write roll number [space] 2019) and send to 16222.
Besides, one can get results visiting websites of respective education boards.
Under the general education boards, this year’s theoretical tests started on Feb 2, and ended on Feb 26 while the practical tests began on Feb 27 and continued till Mar 5.
Under the Technical Education Board, the theoretical tests started on Feb 2 and ended on Feb 23 while the practical tests began on Feb 24 and ended Feb 28.
Usually, chiefs of the education boards hand over the summaries to the prime minister. As Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is on an official visit to the United Kingdom, the results have been handed over to the education minister.