Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid has attributed the drop in success rate of this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent exams to the answer scripts evaluation system.
“We have introduced a new answer paper evaluation system for ensuring better assessment of students in their examination….This might affect the overall results of this year’s HSC and equivalent examination,” he told a media briefing on highlighting key features of this year’s results.
The success rate has fallen to 66.64 percent this year from 68.91 percent last year. A total of 29,262 students scored GPA of 5 against 37,969 in 2017.
“We are providing training to the teachers as well as updating the curriculum to achieve the target of Sustainable Development Goal-4 by 2030. So, it is urgent to introduce better examination system to fulfil the target,” the minister said.
His ministry and concerned wings are constantly working to ensure better quality education for Bangladeshi students, added Nahid.
“We have been successful to plug question leak this year in coordination with four other ministries. We seek cooperation of all to stop this menace,” said.
The education ministry published results of HSC and equivalent exams on Thursday. The overall success rate was dropped by 2.27 percentage points while the number of GPA-5 achievers fell by 8,464.
Girls outperformed boys with a 69.72 percent pass rate, compared to 63.88 percent, according to data provided by Nahid.
HSC theory exams were held from Apr 2 to May 13 and the practical exams were held from May 14 to May 23.
A total of 1,311,457 students took the exams this year, of which 858,101 cleared it.