The combined pass rate in the Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations slightly increased in 2024. The results published on Sunday showed that the combined pass rate this year stood at 83.04 per cent from 80.39 per cent in 2023.
Meanwhile, the number of students securing grade point average of 5 decreased to 1,82,129 this year from 1,83,578 in the previous year.
No students from 51 institutions passed this year. The number of such institutions was 48 in 2023.
The number of educational institutions with a 100 per cent pass rate increased to 2,968 this year from 2,354 in 2023.
Girls have outshone boys in almost all results for the eighth consecutive year.
The Sylhet education board had the lowest pass rate for the third consecutive year with 73.35 per cent, while Jashore board excelled among all 11 boards with 92.33 per cent pass rate.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina released the results after receiving the combined result statistics of the SSC and equivalent examinations from education minister Mohibul Hassan Chowdhury at a ceremony at her official residence Ganabhaban on Sunday morning.
At that time she asked the authorities concerned to find out the reasons as to why boys are declining in number and lagging behind girls in their academic results, reports UNB.
The education minister published the results at a press briefing held at the education ministry conference room in the Secretariat in Dhaka the same day afternoon.
Like the pre-Covid-19 pandemic period, the examinations this year were held on all subjects with full syllabuses, on full marks and for three hours.
The education minister said that currently in the primary level 40 lakh students are studying.
鈥業n next five years, our target will be to bring all these students under the SSC exams,鈥� he said.
Mohibul added that already initiatives were taken to make education free in the junior secondary level covering from Class VI to Class VIII.聽
This year, 20,13,597 students鈥�10,24,803 girls and 9,88,794 boys鈥攈ave appeared in the SSC and equivalent examinations from 29,714 institutions under 11 education boards, while a total of 16,72,153 examinees passed.
The pass rate is 83.77 per cent in nine general boards, 81.38 per cent in the technical board and 79.66 per cent in the Madrassah Board.
The combined pass rate among the girl candidates is 84.47 per cent and among the boys is 81.57 per cent. Girls outshone boys in the separate results of SSC, Dakhil and vocational exams.
A total of 98,776 girls and 83,353 boys earned a grade point average of 5 or higher.
The combined pass rate was 81.88 per cent among the girls and 78.87 per cent among the boys in 2023; 87.71 per cent among the girls and 87.16 per cent among the boys in 2022; 94.5 per cent among the girls and 92.69 per cent among the boys in 2021; 84.1 per cent among the girls and 81.63 per cent among the boys in 2020; 83.28 per cent among the girls and 81.13 per cent among the boys in 2019; 78.85 per cent among the girls and 76.71 per cent among the boys in 2018; and 80.78 per cent among the girls and 79.93 per cent among the boys in 2017.
As per the Bangladesh Education Statistics 2021, in 2016 and in 2015 the combined pass rate was 88.7 per cent and 86.72 per cent respectively, while the girls鈥� pass rate was 88.64 per cent and 86.28 per cent respectively.
Expressing her concern regarding the boy students lagging behind the girls, the prime minister said during publishing the results, 鈥楢bout the pass percentage, the girls are ahead of boys. It is fine. Even then I would like to say that we鈥檝e to pay attention to it,鈥� she said.
鈥楾he number of boys is not supposed to go down. It should be equal (to that of girls),鈥� she added.
The highest number of 49,190 GPA 5 achievers is in Dhaka Board, while the lowest number of the achievers, 4,078, is in the technical board.
This year, 85.88 per cent of candidates鈥�298 of 347鈥攈ave passed the examinations from overseas centres.
The examinations started on February 15 and ended on March 12.
