The results of this year’s Secondary School
Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations were published on
Wednesday, showing a 88.29 percent success rate.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid announced the results at a press
briefing at the Secretariat at 1pm.
This year, a total of 14,52,605 students, out of 16,45, 201, came out
successful in the SSC and its equivalent examinations, said Nahid.
Besides, the number of pass rate has increased to 88.29 percent from
previous year’s 87.4 percent.
The total number of GPA achievers is 1,09,761 this year which was
1,11,901 last year.
Earlier, the minister handed over a copy of the results to Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence Ganobhaban around
10:15am.
The number of the institutions with cent percent pass rate decreased
to 4,734 from last year’s 5,095 while that of institutions with zero
success rate came down to 53 from 47 of last year.
Some 13,00,284 students, out of 11,53,363 examinees, under the eight
general education boards qualified with 88.70 percent pass rate while
2,17,314 students, out of 2,46,336 examinees, under the Madrasah
Board passed the examination with 88.22 percent pass rate and 81,928
students out of 98,551 examinees passed under the Vocational Board
with 83.11 percent pass rate.
Besides, 353 students, out of 395 examinees, passed this year’s SSC
exams under eight overseas centres with 89.37 pass rate.
Meanwhile, the pass rate in eight General Education Boards are
Dhaka-88.67 percent, Rajshahi-95.70 percent, Comilla-84 percent,
Jessore-91.85 percent, Chittagong-90.44 percent, Barisal-79.41
percent, Sylhet-84.77 percent and Dinajpur-89.59 percent.
The minister also said his ministry will find out reasons behind zero
success rates of those 53 institutions. –UNB, Dhaka.
