The results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations of 2024 under 11 education boards were published on Sunday. The pass rate was 83.04 per cent, a 2.65 per cent rise from last year.
Education minister Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury handed over the results summary and statistics to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Ganabhaban on Sunday morning, reports UNB.
"A total of 16,72,153 students passed this year's SSC and equivalent examinations out of 20,13,597 examinees who appeared in the test," he said, reports BSS.
'Find out why boys are fewer in numbers: PM
This year, female students have outnumbered their male counterparts in terms of both pass rate and GPA-5. A total of 10,24,803 female students passed the examinations with an 84.47 per cent success rate, while the number for male students is 9,88,794 with an 81.57 per cent pass rate.
Among the GPA-5 holders, 83,353 are male and 98,776 are female students.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina unveiled the results online and said that experts need to take the initiative now to unearth the causes of the declining number of boys.
"In the case of the pass per centage, the girls are ahead of the boys. It is fine. Even then I would like to say that we have to pay attention to it," she said.
"We have to find out the reasons as to why the boys are fewer in numbers," she said while publishing the results.
Hasina said her government distributes free textbooks on time, provides stipends and scholarships for higher education, and transforms the country into a Digital Bangladesh.
The prime minister also asked the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) and education boards to investigate the situation and determine why the number of students is decreasing. "The number of boys is not supposed to go down. It should be equal (to that of girls)," she added.
Meanwhile, State Minister for Education Shamsun Nahar Begum, senior officials and chairmen of different education boards, among others, were present at the briefing.
The minister said that among the successful students, as many as 1,82,129 students got the highest grade point average (GPA-5), which was 1,83,578 in 2023 and 2,69,602 in 2022.
Meanwhile, the Dhaka Education Board has secured the top position in GPA-5, while the Jashore Education Board has secured the top position in terms of pass rate.
A total of 49,290 students from the Dhaka board secured GPA-5 in the examinations, while the Rajshahi board secured second place in terms of GPA-5 recipients, with 28,074 students.
The third highest GPA-5 recipients were from the Jashore board, with 20,762 students, followed by the Dinajpur board, with 18,105 students; Madrasha board, with 14,206 students; Mymensingh board, with 13,176 students; Cumilla board, with 12,100 GPA-5 recipients and Chattogram board with 10,824 students.
The Technical Education Board had the lowest number of GPA-5 recipients, with 4,078 students, while the Barisal and Sylhet education boards did slightly better, with 6,145 and 5,471 GPA-5 recipients, respectively.
Regarding pass rate, Jashore Education Board has secured the top position among 11 education boards with a 92.33 per cent pass rate. At the same time, Sylhet Board witnessed the lowest pass rate of 73.35.
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The pass rates of other boards are 89.26 per cent in Rajshahi Board, 89.13 per cent in Barishal Board, 85 per cent, 83.92 per cent in Dhaka Board, 82.80 per cent in Chattogram Board, 79.66 per cent in the Madrasah Board, 79.23 per cent in Cumilla Board, and 81.38 per cent in the technical education board.
In the nine general education boards, some 13 45,678 students passed out of 16 06,394—where some 6 23,853 are male, and some 7 21,825 are female. A total of 1 63,845 students got the highest Grade Point Average (GPA-5) in the SSC exams, according to the results published here on Sunday.
Overseas students’ success
Students from eight international centres participating in this year's SSC exams demonstrated commendable performance, with an average pass rate of 85.88 per cent. Of the 347 students who sat for the exams, 298 successfully passed, marking a significant achievement for the overseas candidates.
The success stories include two educational institutions abroad where every participating student passed, achieving a cent per cent pass rate.
According to the latest statistics, none of the students were expelled during the exam sessions, pointing to a smoothly conducted examination process across these international centres.
This year, 298 students from eight foreign centres passed the SSC examinations, with an 85.88 per cent pass rate.
A total of 347 overseas students appeared in the SSC examinations this year.
This year, 2,968 educational institutions achieved a 100 per cent pass rate, while students from 51 schools and madrasahs under five education boards failed to pass the examinations, a slight increase from 48 last year.
Among the institutions with cent per cent passes, 174 institutions are from Dhaka, 289 from Rajshahi, 98 from Cumilla, 422 from Jashore, 66 from Chattogram, 222 from Barishal, 31 from Sylhet, 77 from Dinajpur, 80 from Mymensingh while 1,089 are under Madrasah Board and 440 under Bangladesh Technical Education Board.
Among the institutions with zero pass rates, two are from the Rajshahi Education Board, three are from Dhaka, five are from Mymensingh, and the maximum 42 are from the Madrasah Education Board.
These exams were administered across 3,799 centres, involving students from 29,861 institutions under 11 education boards, including nine general education boards.
The SSC results are usually published within 60 days of the exams.
