The results of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) 2024 and equivalent examinations, held under 11 education boards across Bangladesh, were published yesterday, with a pass rate of 77.78 per cent.
This year, 1,45,911 students achieved the GPA-5 (the highest grade point average), with 80,993 females and 64,978 males obtaining this score, whereas the number was 92,595 last year.
A total of 13,31,058 candidates appeared for the HSC and equivalent exams, out of which 10,35,309 students successfully passed this year.
Under nine general education boards, a total of 1, 31, 376 students achieved GPA-5 while 9,613 students under madrasah education board and 4,922 under technical education board.
The general education boards recorded a 75.56 per cent pass rate, while the madrasa and technical boards saw significantly higher success rates of 93.40 per cent and 88.09 per cent, respectively.
The combined pass rate across all boards in this year’s HSC is 77.78 per cent, which is 0.86 percent lower than last year. In 2023, the combined pass rate was 78.64 per cent.
Among the nine general educational boards, Sylhet Board secured the top position with 85.38 per cent pass rate in the examinations.
The pass rate of Barishal Board is 81.85, while 81.24 per cent in Rajshahi, 79.21 per cent in Dhaka, 77.56 per cent in Dinajpur, 71.15 per cent in Cumilla, 70.32 per cent in Chattogram, 64.29 per cent in Jashore, and 63.22 per cent in Mymensingh.
A total of 1,388 educational institutions out of 9,197 achieved 100 per cent pass rate, which was 953 in 2023, while no student from 65 educational institutions under eight of 11 education boards failed to be successful in the examinations.
This year, the number of exam centres increased slightly from 2,657 in 2023 to 2,695 in 2024, and the total number of institutions rose by 10, from 9,187 in 2023 to 9,197 in 2024.
The HSC and equivalent examinations, which commenced on June 30, 2024, were disrupted by violent protests during the quota reform movement. Following these disruptions, the government was forced to delay the remaining exams.
After the fall of the Hasina-led government, the newly installed interim government initially rescheduled the exams to September 11. However, due to ongoing protests by a faction of HSC candidates, the government made the decision on August 20 to cancel the remaining postponed exams.
Later, as per the education ministry’s decision, the students have been evaluated through the subject mapping method based on the SSC results for those subjects which exams did not take place.
