A total of 66.64% students passed the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent exams this year.

A total of 13, 11, 457 students sat for exams this year from eight education boards, and madrasa and technical boards.

Out of them, 692,730 are male and 618,727 are female.

Earlier, the copies of the results of Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent exams of this year were handed over to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official Ganabhaban residence at 10am.

Education minister said this year 858,801 passed the exam and 29,262 got GPA 5.

Nahid will later officially announce the results at a press conference at the secretariat at 1pm.

This year’s exams were held between Apr 2 and May 23.

Besides, 299 examinees appeared in the seven foreign centres.