Students of the Dhaka Education Board (DEB) have secured the maximum number of highest Grade Point Average (GPA-5) in this years Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations.
A total of 49,290 students from the board secured GPA-5 in the SSC examinations while the Rajshahi Education Board secured second position in terms of GPA-5 recipients with 28,074 students, according to the results published on Sunday.
The third highest GPA-5 recipients were from Jashore Board with 20,762 students followed by Dinajpur Board with 18,105 students, Madrasha Board with 14,206 students, Mymensingh Board with 13,176 students, Cumilla Board with 12,100 students and Chattogram Board with 10,824 students.
Technical Education Board (TEB) had the lowest number of GPA-5s with 4,078 students while Barisal and Sylhet Education Boards did slightly better with 6,145 and 5,471 GPA-5 recipients respectively.
Meanwhile, in terms of pass rate, Jashore Education Board (JEB) has secured the top position among 11 education boards with 92.33 percent pass rate while Sylhet Board witnessed the lowest pass rate of 73.35.
The pass rates of other boards are-- 89.26 percent in Rajshahi Board, 89.13 percent in Barishal Board, 85 percent in Mymensingh Board, 83.92 percent in Dhaka Board, 82.80 percent in Chattogram Board, 78.43 percent in Dinajpur Board, 79.66 percent in the Madrasah Board, 79.23 percent in Cumilla Board and 81.38 percent in Technical Education Board.
A total of 16, 72,153 students passed this years SSC and equivalent examinations out of 20, 13,597 examinees appeared in the test. Among them, as many as 1, 82,129 students got GPA-5 in the examinations which was 1,83,578 last year.
Among them, 83,353 are male and 98,776 are female students.
In the nine general education boards, some 13, 45,678 students passed out of 16, 06,394 where some 6, 23,853 are male and some 7, 21,825 are females. A total of 1, 63,845 students got GPA-5 the highest Grade Point Average (GPA-5) in the SSC exams, according to the results published here today.
In the Madrasah Education Board, a total of 2,26,754 students-- 1,09,714 male and 1,17,040 female-- passed out of 2,84,665 students. Of them, some 14, 206 students got GPA-5.
In the Technical Education Board, 99,721 students-- 72,986 male and 26,735 female-- passed out of total 1, 22,538 students. Of them, 4,078 students got the GPA-5. —BSS
