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Vol. 5 Num 1078 Wed. June 13, 2007  
   
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SSC pass rate falls


Pass rate in this year's Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination has declined to 57.37 percent from last year's 59.04 percent but more students secured GPA-5.

A total of 25,732 students under seven education boards received the highest score of GPA-5 (Grade Point Average) this year -- up from 24,384 students last year.

Average pass rate of SSC, SSC (Vocational) and Dakhil examinations under nine education boards including Madrasah Board and Technical Education Board also declined to 58.36 percent against 62.22 percent last year.

However, more examinees from the same boards, 32,646 in total, secured GPA 5 compared to 30,490 last year. Among them, 9,439 are from Dhaka Board, 6,910 from Rajshahi Board, 2,387 from Comilla Board, 2,329 from Jessore Board, 3,313 from Chittagong Board, 641 from Barisal Board, 713 from Sylhet Board, 6,889 from Madrasah Board and 25 from Technical Education Board.

As many as 10,24,537 students -- 5,51,255 boys and 4,73,282 girls -- appeared in this year's SSC exams under nine educational boards and 5,97,955 of them -- 3,35,443 boys and 2,62,512 girls -- passed.

Pass rate for boys is 60.85 and girls is 55.47 against 64.27 and 59.75 last year.

The results of SSC exams under seven secondary and higher secondary educational boards -- Dhaka, Rajshahi, Chittagong, Comilla, Jessore, Barisal, Sylhet as well as SSC (Vocational) exams under Technical Education Board (BTEB) and Dakhil exams under Madrasah Education Board were published yesterday.

The examinations began on March 8 and ended in the first week of April 2007. Only 330 examinees secured GPA 5 in 2002 when the GPA system of grading was introduced at secondary level for the first time.

Like the previous years, schools in urban areas, particularly those in metropolitan cities, dominated in securing GPA 5 this year.

Among the top ten GPA 5 securing schools, nine are in the capital under Dhaka Education Board, six in Chittagong sadar under Chittagong Board, seven in Comilla sadar under Comilla Board, ten in Khulna, Jessore, Kushtia sadars under Jessore Board and six in Sylhet sadar under Sylhet Board.

A highest of 564 students from Viqarunnisa Noon School secured GPA 5 followed by Ideal School and College with 527 GPA 5 receivers. Monipur High School in Mirpur succeeded getting 314 GPA 5s.

Double Mooring Collegiate School in Chittagong bagged 265 GPA-5s while Khastagir Govt Girls High School 197.

A total of 255 students from Comilla Zila School secured GPA 5 under Comilla Board while Faizunnesa Govt Girls High School received 129 GPA 5s.

No examinees passed the exams from 248 educational institutions across the country. In 2006, the number of such institutions with zero pass rate was 193 while 424 in 2005 and 548 in 2004.

The results of SSC, SSC (Vocational) and Dakhil examinations under all the nine education boards were made public yesterday at 3:00 pm in a press conference at Dhaka Education Board.

At the conference, M Mamtazul Islam, the education secretary, said the percentage of successful students slightly went down this year due to last year's over a month-long strike observed by teachers and staff of non-government schools.

He added that as per a government directive, for the first time this year, the HSC (Higher Secondary Certificate) exam results will be published by the education ministry without first having those sent to the prime minister's office.

In this year's SSC exams, 2,29,263 examinees appeared under Dhaka Board, 2,10,866 under Rajshahi Board, 89,803 under Comilla Board, 1,16,812 under Jessore Board, 61,961 under Chittagong Board, 51,158 under Barisal Board, and 32, 302 under Sylhet Board.

The Jessore Education Board achieved the highest pass percentage of 60.87 trailed by Dhaka with 60.81, Rajshahi 59.18, Chittagong 57.94, Barisal 50.67, Sylhet 41.27 and Comilla 46.83 percent.

Madrassa Education Board achieved a pass rate of 65.87 percent against last year's 75.81 percent and Technical Education Board achieved 51.08 percent pass rate against its rate of 61.37 last year.


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