The pass rate in Higher Secondary Certificate examinations under nine general boards this year is the lowest after 2005.
The combined pass rate in HSC and equivalent examinations under all 11 boards this year also declined by about 20 per cent compared with that in the past year, according to the results published on Thursday.
The number of examinees securing the grade point average of 5 also nearly halved compared to that in the past year.
The number of educational institutions with no passes increased sharply by three times, while the number of educational institutions with a 100 per cent pass rate declined drastically compared with those in the past year.
Officials at the education boards said that most of the unsuccessful candidates failed in English. Besides, many also failed in information and communication technology and higher mathematics.
The adviser to the education ministry, professor Chowdhury Rafiqul Abrar, at a press briefing in the secretariat in Dhaka, said that the government strictly evaluated the answer papers this year.
鈥榃e preferred honesty with fair marks over satisfaction with extra marks,鈥� he said.
The board officials also mentioned rural-urban disparity and fault in the education system as reasons for the failure of around half of the students.
Girls this year have outshone the boys in the pass rate and achieving GPA 5 in the examinations in continuation of the trend in the past 14 years.
The combined pass rate in the HSC and equivalent examinations this year has stood at 58.83 per cent. The rate was 77.78 per cent in 2024.
According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Educational Information and Statistics, the pass rate in the HSC exams in 2005 was 59.16 per cent and 47.73 per cent in 2004.
The pass rate in the HSC exams between 2006 and 2024 was between 60 per cent and 100 per cent. In 2020, the government granted 100 per cent passes in the HSC and equivalent exams due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
A total of 69,097 students have obtained GPA 5 this year. The number was 1,45,911 last year.
The number of educational institutions with no passes increased to 202 this year from 65 in 2024 and the number of educational institutions with a 100 per cent pass rate declined to 345 this year from 1,388 in 2024.
Among the nine general boards, one madrassah, and one technical board, the highest pass rate was 75.61 per cent in the madrassah board this year, and the lowest was 48.86 per cent in the Cumilla board.
The Bangladesh Inter-Education Board Coordination Committee chair and the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka chief, professor Khandaker Ehsanul Kabir, published the results on Thursday from his Dhaka board office.
Replying to a question, he said that the candidates every year failed mostly in English and the issue was a frequently discussed one.
He also mentioned that many also failed in Information and Communication Technology and higher mathematics subjects.聽
The professor told 抖阴精品 that most of the students in the Dhaka board also failed in English.
Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Rajshahi chairman professor ANM Mofakkharul Islam said that 32,000 candidates in the board failed in one subject and 22,000 of them failed in English.
Professor Khandaker Ehsanul said that the evaluation process was strict this year and was being monitored frequently.
About the institutions with a 100 per cent pass rate, he said that there was a sick competition among some institutions to get the title of 100 per cent pass institutions.
Such competition does not allow some weaker students to participate in the examinations after the test examinations, he said.
He added that there was a fault in the education system, as around half of the students did not pass the examinations.
Education adviser professor Chowdhury Rafiqul Abrar, at his secretariat press briefing, said that the answer to the questions regarding poor HSC and equivalent results was easy but uncomfortable.聽
Mentioning that the crisis in the education sector started from the primary level, he said, 鈥榖ut we did not want to face this reality for a long time.鈥�
鈥榃e had developed a culture where numbers became reality - the pass rate was the symbol of success, the GPA-5 number was the criterion of satisfaction,鈥� he said.
He said that all educational boards were being asked to prepare separate evaluation reports to find out the reasons behind the results.
The adviser said that an expert panel had been formed to identify the deficiencies in the system and they will hold a meeting of the national education advice committee next week.
According to the result published on Thursday, 5,98,166 of the total 10,47,242 examinees, or 57.12 per cent passed the exams, and 63,219 secured GPA 5 under the nine general boards.
In the madrassah education board, 62,609 of 82,809 examinees, or 75.61 per cent came out successful, and 4,268 secured GPA 5.
Under the technical education board, out of 1,05,610 examinees, 66,185 or 62.67 per cent passed the examination, while 1,610 secured GPA 5.
A total of 9,197 educational institutions under 11 boards participated in the examinations.
The results also showed that 62.97 per cent of the girls and 54.6 per cent of the boys passed the examinations in the combined result.
In all boards, the pass rates of the girls were higher than those of the boys.聽
Regarding securing GPA 5, 37,044 girls achieved the result, while 32,053 boys achieved the same. Only in the madrassah board, more boys secured GPA 5 than girls this year.
This year鈥檚 pass rate in English is 75.16 per cent in Barishal board, 73.66 per cent in Dhaka, 68.82 per cent in Rajshahi, 65.28 per cent in Cumilla, 64.53 per cent in Sylhet, 64.47 per cent in Dinajpur, 63.79 per cent in Chattogram, 61.92 per cent in Mymensingh and 54.82 per cent in Jashore board.
According to the results published on Thursday, no examinees passed from 202 educational institutions, with the highest 43 institutions in Dinajpur board, 35 in Rajshahi, 34 in Dhaka, 25 in madrassah, 20 in Jashore, 15 in Mymensingh, 12 in Barishal, nine in Cumilla, 5 in Chattogram, and 4 in Sylhet board.
Under the nine general boards, the pass rate in the science group is 78.72 per cent, while the rate in the business studies group is 55.58 per cent and the rate in the humanities group is 48.23 per cent.
