The combined pass rate in the Secondary School Certificate and its equivalent examinations this year has recorded its lowest in 15 years, with the number of students securing the grade point average of 5 falling.
The results published on Thursday showed that the combined pass rate stood at 68.45 per cent in 2025, while it was 83.04 per cent in 2024.
This year鈥檚 combined pass rate is the lowest after 2009 when the pass rate was 67.41 per cent.
The number of students securing the GPA-5 in this year decreased to 1,39,032 compared with that of 1,82,129 in the previous year.
Girls, meanwhile, have outshone boys in almost all education boards this year for the ninth consecutive year.
On the occasion of publishing the results, a views-exchange meeting with journalists was held at the conference room at the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka in the capital on Thursday.
In response to a question about the fall in the pass rate, Inter-Education Board Coordination Committee chief professor Khondokar Ehsanul Kabir, also the chairman of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka, said that they were not under compulsion to reduce or increase the pass rate or the number of GPA-5 achievers.
鈥榃e told the examiners to conduct the evaluation process properly,鈥� he said.
Khondokar Ehsanul also said that the difference between the rural areas and the urban areas persisted, with the students in rural areas lagging behind in the results.
No students from 134 educational institutions, mostly in the rural areas, passed this year, while the number of such institutions was 51 in 2024.
The number of educational institutions with a 100-per cent pass rate decreased to 984 this year from 2,968 in the past year. A large number of students failed in mathematics this year.
In cases of groups, the highest pass rate is in the science group, 85.68 per cent, followed by the business studies 66.32 per cent and the humanities 53.87 per cent.
The Barishal education board had the lowest pass rate of 56.38 per cent, while the Rajshahi board excelled among all 11 education boards with a 77.63-per cent pass rate.
At the views-exchange meeting, Khondokar Ehsanul said that there were many remote areas in Barishal and at some places teachers did not want to go and stay there.
鈥楿nder the Dhaka board, in the Dhaka metropolitan city the pass rate is over 80 per cent,鈥� he said, adding that when they went to the upazila level, then the pass rate started falling.
For example, the pass rate in Gazipur district is 63 per cent, Munshiganj 67 per cent and Tangail 57 per cent this year, he mentioned.
He added that in the Dhaka city there were some established old institutions which held firm the pass rate.听
This year, 19,04,086 students 鈥� 9,52,389 girls and 9,51,6974 boys 鈥� appeared in the SSC and its equivalent examinations from 30,088 institutions under 11 education boards, while 13,03,426 examinees passed the exams. A total of 6,00,660 examinees could not passed the exams.
The pass rate is 68.04 per cent in nine general education boards, 68.09 per cent in the Madrassah education board and 73.63 per cent in the technical education board.
The combined pass rate was 80.39 per cent in 2023, 87.44 per cent in 2022, 93.58 per cent in 2021, 82.87 per cent in 2020, 82.2 per cent in 2019 and 77.77 per cent in 2018.
According to the Bangladesh Education Statistics 2023 published by the Bangladesh Bureau of Educational Information and Statistics, the combined pass rate was 81.21 per cent in 2017, 88.7 per cent in 2016, 86.72 per cent in 2015, 92.67 per cent in 2014, 89.28 per cent in 2013, 86.32 per cent in 2012, 82.16 per cent in 2011 and 78.19 per cent in 2010.
In the case of mathematics subject this year, the lowest, 64.27 per cent of examinees, passed at the Mymensingh education board, while 64.62 per cent at the Barishal board, 71.35 per cent at the Dinajpur board, 72.01 per cent at the Cumilla board, 75.14 per cent at the Dhaka board, 79.73 per cent at the Madrassah board, 83.17 per cent at the Sylhet board, 85.02 per cent at the Jashore board, 86.52 per cent at the Rajshahi board and 88.72 per cent at the technical board.
In cases of other subjects, including Bangla, English, physics, chemistry, ICT, civics and accounting, the examinees mostly got over 80 and 90 marks.
The combined pass rate among the girl candidates is 71.03 per cent and that among the boys is 65.88 per cent.
Girls have outshone boys in the separate results of the SSC, Dakhil and vocational exams too.
A total of 73,616 girls and 65,416 boys earned the grade point average of 5.
The highest number of 37,068 GPA-5 achievers is in the Dhaka board, while the lowest number of the achievers, 3,114, is in the Barishal board.
This year, 373 of 427 candidates have passed the examinations from overseas centres.
The SSC and its equivalent examinations started on April 10 and ended on May 15.
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Rajuk Uttara Model College students celebrate their success in the SSC exams on the campus in Dhaka on Thursday. 听抖阴精品 photo
