Girls have outshone boys in the results of this year鈥檚 Secondary School Certificate and its equivalent examinations for the ninth consecutive year.
The combined pass rate among the girl candidates is 71.03 per cent and among the boys is 65.88 per cent.
Girls have outshone boys in the separate results of SSC, Dakhil and vocational exams.
A total of 73,616 girls and 65,416 boys earned a grade point average of 5.
The combined pass rate was 84.47 per cent among the girls and 81.57 per cent among the boys in 2024; 81.88 per cent among the girls and 78.87 per cent among the boys in 2023; 87.71 per cent among the girls and 87.16 per cent among the boys in 2022; 94.5 per cent among the girls and 92.69 per cent among the boys in 2021; 84.1 per cent among the girls and 81.63 per cent among the boys in 2020; 83.28 per cent among the girls and 81.13 per cent among the boys in 2019; 78.85 per cent among the girls and 76.71 per cent among the boys in 2018; and 80.78 per cent among the girls and 79.93 per cent among the boys in 2017.
As per the Bangladesh Education Statistics 2021, in 2016 and in 2015 the combined pass rate was 88.7 per cent and 86.72 per cent respectively, while the girls鈥� pass rate was 88.64 per cent and 86.28 per cent respectively.
