Female students outperformed the male candidates in this year's Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent exams, securing higher pass rates and GPA grades.
A total of 20,41,450 students -- 10,31,647 female and 10,09,803 male -- sat for this year's exams.
Of them, 16,41,140 students passed this year's exams -- 8,44,736 girls and 7,96,404 boys -- with girls outnumbering boys by 48,332.
The pass rate of female students is 81.88 percent while it is 78.87 percent among boys -- a gap of 3.01 percentage point.
Among the total, 98,614 girls secured GPA-5 while 84,964 boys achieved the highest grade point average, which is 13,650 more than the boys.
Education Minister Dipu Moni handed over the results to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday morning.
Altogether 80.39% of students who sat for this year's Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent exams have cleared the tests, which is 7.05% lower than last year.
This year the school-leaving public exams began across the country on April 30 and ended on May 28. Prior to the Covid pandemic, the SSC exams used to start in February.
A total of 2,041,450 students under 11 education boards took the exams.
The exams were held on all subjects but on curtailed syllabuses.
Students can apply for recheck of their Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent exams from July 29 to August 4.
A notification signed by Prof Md Abul Bashar, controller of examinations of Dhaka Education Board, was issued in this regard.
The notification said students can apply for re-scrutiny of multiple subjects through a single text message. The application fee is Tk 125 per subject, it said.
