The success rate at this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) exams has gone up to 78.33 percent against last year’s 74.30 percent. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid along with chairmen of all education boards handed over the results to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina around 10am on Wednesday. A total of 70,602 students have scored GPA 5 this year. 1,147,374 students of 8,104 institutions took this year’s HSC and equivalent exams between Apr 3 and Jun 16. Nahid will officially announce the results at a press conference in the Secretariat around 1pm. Students will be able to know their results after 1.30pm. Apart from the educational institutions, the results will be available on www.educationboardresults.gov.bd. Candidates can also get their result by sending SMS to 16222 with text ‘HSC’ followed by a space then first 3 letters of the respective education board another space then roll number followed by space again then ‘2014’. — bdnews24.com
