The pass rate of this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exams is 82.20 percent. Last year, this was 77.77 percent. The pass rate this year is 4.43 percent more than last year.
Though this year, the number of students getting GPA-5 has fallen.
This year, 105,594 students got GPA-5, which was 110,629 last year.
Relevant people say that this was due to the overall fall in grades in mathematics and the humanities section.
Dhaka Board chairman, Professor M Ziaul Huq, told Bangla Tribune: “The pass rate of Dhaka board has fallen by 2 percent with falling pass rates in mathematics by 4 percent which had an impact on overall result.”

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.

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.