Staff Reporter :
A total of 20,18,271 students out of 24,82,342 passed the Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dhakil Certificate (JDC) examinations-2017, which is 9.41 percent lower than that of the previous year.
The percentage of the pass rate is 83.65 percent which was 93.06 percent in the previous year.
The number of GPA-5 earning students reduced by 55,960 than the previous year as a total of 1,91,628 candidates achieved GPA-5 this year, which was 2,47,588 last year.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid briefed the media on several aspects of the JSC-JDC results at the Secretariat at 2:00pm on Saturday.
Secretary of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Division Md Sohrab Hossain, Secretary of Madrasah and Technical Education Board Md Alamgir and senior officials of the Education Ministry, among others, were present at the press conference.
Earlier in the morning, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced the results after Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid, accompanied by the chairpersons of the education boards, handed it over to her at the Ganabhaban around 12:00noon.
In JSC examinations, a total of 17,07,024 candidates out of 21,03,763 passed the examinations.
The pass rate hit a record low of 83.10 percent with 1,84,397 students securing GPA-5 under eight general education boards across the country, down by 50,662 from last year.
The pass rate in JDC examinations is 86.80 percent, 7.22 percent lower than in the last year
The number of GPA-5 achieving students also has come down to 7,231, decreasing by 5,298 students from last year.
A total of 5,279 educational institutions achieved 100 percent pass rate in this year’s JSC and JDC examinations, while the number was 9,450 last year.
Of those, 529 institutions are from Dhaka, 1,035 from Rajshahi, 61 from Comilla, 281 from Jessore, 90 from Chittagong, 812 from Barisal, 171 from Sylhet, 580 from Dinajpur, while 1,720 are under Madrasa Education Board.
A total of 3,559 schools under eight general education boards achieved 100 percent pass rate in this year’s JSC examinations, while the number was 6,247 last year.
A total of 1,720 madrasas achieved 100 percent pass rate in this year’s JDC examinations, while the number was 3,203 previous year.
A total of 1,720 madrasas achieved 100 percent pass rate in this year’s JDC examinations, while the number was 3,203 last year.
A total of 562 students from nine foreign centres have come out successful in the JSC examinations this year with 93.82 percent pass rate.
Meanwhile, no student passed in 59 educational institutions while it was 28 last year.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said, “We have attached priority to improving quality of education to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). We have introduced modern and effective answer paper evaluation system aiming to evaluate answer scrip in an accurate manner.”
The government is implementing various programmes to promote female education in the country. Advancement of female education is a great achievement, which has been attributed to sincere efforts and strong commitment of the government, he said.
The results are aviable on the websites of Ministry of Education: http:/www.educationboardresults.gov.bd. Besides, student can also get their results via short messaging service (SMS).
The JSC and JDC examinations were held between November 1 and 18. A total of 24, 68,820 students from 28,621 educational institutions appeared in this year’s examinations. Of them, 11, 44,778 are male and 13, 24,042 female.
The number of JSC examinees is 20,90,277 while 3,78,543 examinees participated in the JDC examination this year.
