Live Correspondent: The results of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination held under eight education boards and equivalent examinations under the madrasa and technical education boards this year were published on Sunday. Eighty two point eighty seven (82.87 percent) percent students came out successfully in this year’s SSC and equivalent examinations.

However, some 1,35,898 students got GPA-5 this year.Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni announced the results at a video conference today. Earlier, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the results from Ganabhaban at 10am.

This year, 2,040,028 students took part in SSC and equivalent examinations. Of them, 1,690,523 candidates successfully cleared the exams.Among the general education boards, Rajshahi recorded the highest pass rate – 90.37 percent.

According to the statistics of nine general education boards, 1,631,308 students sat for the SSC examination this year compared to 1,694,652 in 2019. Of them, 1,366,218 cleared the examination – a pass rate of 83.75 percent this time compared to 82.8 percent last year.

Under the madrasa board, 276,215 students appeared in Dakhil examination and 228,410 of them passed with a success rate of 82.51 percent. Meanwhile, 131,905 students appeared under the technical board and of them, 95,895 came out successful with a pass rate of 72.7 percent. A total of 833,892 boys and 856,631 girls passed the SSC and equivalent examinations.

Besides, 336 students sat for the examinations under the nine overseas centres and of them 318 came out successful with pass rate of 94.64 percent.

Among the general education boards, total 82.34 percent students passed the exams under Dhaka Board, 84.75 percent under Chattogram, 85.22 percent in Cumilla, 79.70 percent in Barishal, 78.79 percent in Sylhet, 82.73 percent in Dinajpur, 87.31 percent in Jashore, 80.13 percent in Mymensingh, and 90.37 percent in Rajshahi Board.

Dhaka, 31, May (campuslive24.com)//Ait