There has been a major decline in the results of this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations. The pass rate has fallen to the lowest level in the last 22 years. A total of 594,113 students have failed in 11 education boards. At the same time, the number of students getting GPA-5 is also the lowest in the last eight years.
According to the results released on Saturday (October 31), the pass rate across the country’s nine general education boards stood at 51.62 percent. Last year, the rate was 57.12 percent.
Analysis of data from the Bangladesh Bureau of Education Information and Statistics (Banbase) shows that the last time the general education boards passed was in 2004 was in 47.73 percent. That year, the pass rate was 47.73 percent. The following year, in 2005, it increased to 59.16 percent. Since then, the pass rate has not dropped this low in the last 22 years.
This year, out of a total of 10,48,530 candidates under the nine general education boards, 5,7281 failed. Last year, the number was 4,49,76.
According to the results of the general education boards since 1990, stored with Banbase, this year the highest number of students have failed.
A total of 594,113 students failed in 11 education boards, including the Madrasa and Technical Education Boards. Last year, the number was 588,701. The pass rate for all boards is 52.12 percent, compared to 58.83 percent last year.
GPA-5 has decreased significantly
Along with the pass rate, the number of students who got the highest result of GPA-5 has also decreased. This time, a total of 40,084 students across 11 education boards got GPA-5. Last year, this number was 69,097.
Previously, 47,286 students got GPA-5 in 2019 and 29,262 in 2018. According to statistics, this is the lowest number of students getting GPA-5 in the last eight years.
Education Minister Dr. ANM Ehsanul Haque Milon officially released the results of this year’s HSC and equivalent examinations at the Secretariat on Saturday at 11 am.
Opportunity for failed students to re-examine
Meanwhile, the Education Minister has announced that students who failed in the exam will be given the opportunity to retake the exam. He said that these students will be able to retake the exam within the next one to two months. A student will be given the opportunity to retake the exam only in the subjects in which he failed.
The Prime Minister’s Education Advisor Mahdi Amin, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister in charge of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism Barrister Gias Uddin Rimon, President of the Bangladesh Inter-Education Board Coordination Committee and Chairman of the Dhaka Education Board Professor Syed Akhtaruzzaman, and chairmen of various education boards were present at the result announcement ceremony.
Source: The Daily Star