Shawdesh Desk:

The results of this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations were published on Thursday, showing a pass percentage of 93.58.

The pass rate of SSC examination is 94.08 percent while that of madrasa 93.33 percent and technical 88.49 percent.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina published the results, joining a function at Bangabandhu International Conference (BICC) virtually from her official residence Ganabhaban in the morning.

On behalf of the Prime Minister, Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni received the results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations-2021 and related statistics from the chairmen of all the education boards.

This year, 2,240,395 students –-1,142,094 boys and 1,098,301 girls– took part in the SSC and its equivalent examinations from 29,035 institutes under 11 education boards in the country. Of them, 2,096,546 successfully cleared the exams.

The SSC and its equivalent examinations started on November 14 and completed on November 23 last with some 2.278 million students appearing in the exams.

The examinations were held with short syllabuses on three elective subjects on a group basis.

Among the general education boards, Mymensingh recorded the highest pass rate – 97.52 percent.

Among the general education boards, Dhaka had a pass rate of 90.12, Cumilla 96.27 percent, Jashore 93.09 percent, Chattogram 91.12 percent, Barishal 90.19 percent, Rajshahi 94.71 percent, Dinajpur 94.80 percent and Sylhet 96.78 percent.

Last year’s HSC examinees were evaluated on the basis of their results of JSC and SSC exams, a decision which received a mixed reaction.

The SSC exams are usually held in February every year, but the tests for this year were delayed for nine months as educational institutions had been shut since March last year due to ovid-19 pandemic.

With the pandemic situation improving, educational institutions were reopened on a limited scale in September this year.