The New Nation - Internet Edition

DU Correspondent

This year 64.27per cent students have passed the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) Examinations under seven education boards which is the highest pass percentage in the last five years.

The percentage was 63.92 in 2006, 59.16 in 2005, 47.74 in 2004, 38.43 in 2003, and 27.09 in 2002.

The average percentage of the nine boards including Madrasah and Technical Boards stood at 65.60 while the percentage was 65.65 last year. The number of GPA-5 recipients this year is 11,140 while the number was 9,864 in 2006.

A total of 431,835 students including 237,214 boys and 194,621 girls appeared at this year's examinations and 277,523 of them-154,085 boys and 123,438 girls--passed.

Some 10,205 examinees have obtained the highest Grade Point Average (GPA)-5 while the number was 9,450 last year and 5,509 in 2005, 3,036 in 2004. Of them, 5,254 are from Dhaka Board, 911 from Chitagong Board, 1818 from Rajshahi Board, 1,191 from Jessore Board, 506 from Comilla Board, 314 from Sylhet Board and 211 from Barisal Board.

Pass percentages for boys and girls are 64.96 and 63.42 against 64.23 and 63.52 of last year. The HSC results of the seven boards were published yesterday as per the grading system introduced in 2003.

Results of the Alim examinations under Bangladesh Madrasa Education Board and HSC (vocational), business management, and diploma-in-commerce examinations under Bangladesh Technical Education Board were also published yesterday--all under the grading system.

Additional Secretary of Education Ministry Abdul Awal Majumdar published the result at the Dhaka Education Board at 12:30pm yesterday while Joint Secretary Nazmul Islam Khan and the Chairmen of nine Education Boards were present

The students of Business Studies and Commerce passed the highest number of percentage 74.58 while Science students passed 68.17 percentage and Humanities students 56.14 percentage.

In Dhaka Board this year HSC students passed the highest number of percentage 70.77 and in Barisal Board the lowest number of percentage 55.63. Dhaka Board last year obtained the highest pass percentage of 74.76 and Jessore Board the lowest 54.40.

In Dhaka Board, 49,635 out of the 69,990 examinees passed the examinations with the pass percentage of 70.92. As many as 23,689 students appeared at the examinations under Barisal Board and 13,178 out of them passed which percentage is 54.40.

Among the 102,108 candidates under Rajshahi Board, 63,193 have been successful with a pass percentage of 61.89 against 56.76 last year.

Under Jessore Board, 78,134 students appeared at the examinations and 46,478 passed. The pass percentage is 59.48 against last year's 54.40.

Under Comilla Board, 30,295 examinees out of 46,073 passed. The pass percentage is 65.75 against 63.73 last year. Chitagong Board had 37,092 candidates and 22,759 out of them passed. The pass percentage is 61.36 against 61.50 last year.

Under Sylhet Board, 16,972 students appeared at the examinations and 11,198 passed which percentage is 65.98 against 65.45 last year.

A total of 51,623 students including 35,201 boys and 16,422 girls appeared this year`s Alim exam under Madrasah Board while 38363 at students…26,507 boys and 11,856 girls….passed. The percentage of the result is 74.31 against last year's 75.23.

The number of Alim examinees geting GPA-5 this year is 930 while only five from technical board have obtained GPA-5.

Some 49,700 students appeared at this year's HSC (Vocational) examination. Of them, 33,863 students passed which percentage is 68.13 against 69.74 last year.