Female students made a better result than the male students in the HSC exams.

In the 10 education boards, the pass rate of female students is 69.72% while for male it is 63.88%.

The result will be made public at 1:30pm today.

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.

This year the total pass rate is 66.64%, which is 2.27 percentage point less than that of the previous year.

Meanwhile, in the morning, the copies of the results of Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent exams of 2018 have been handed over to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official Ganabhaban residence.

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid handed over the copies to the premier at 10am on Thursday.

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

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

Besides, 299 examinees appeared in the seven foreign centres.