Pass rate, GPA 5 scorers drop in SSC No more top 20 list

SSC and equivalent examinations results marked a significant decrease with the combined pass rate standing at 87.04 per cent, which is 4.30 percentage points lower than that of the previous year.
This year, 1,11,901 students scored the grade point average of 5; the figure is 30,375 less than that of 2014.The results of the Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations, published on Saturday, also showed that the number of institutions with 100 per cent pass rate decreased to 5,092 from 6,092 of the past year.
No students passed from 47 educational institutions this year; the figure almost doubled from 24 of 2014.
The pass rate in SSC exams under eight education boards decreased by 5.95 percentage points, while in Dakhil exams under madrassah board increased by .95 percentage points and in SSC vocational exams under technical education board increased by 1.04 percentage points, compared with that of 2014.
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, and the education minister, Nurul Islam Nahid, blamed general strike enforced by the opposition parties during the exams for the result debacle.
Board chairmen, however, told New Age that introduction of question papers in creative in general mathematics and higher mathematics for the first time this year caused the bad results.
SSC and equivalent exams were seriously interrupted by general strikes enforced by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance. All exams were rescheduled and held only on weekends – Fridays and Saturdays.
The education minister announced the results at a press conference at the ministry at about 1:00pm. Earlier in the morning, he handed over the results of all boards to the prime minister.
Hasina said, ‘The examinees faced serious trouble during the exams because of frequent shifting of their exams due to hartal and blockade. Otherwise, the overall results would have been much better.’
This year, 12,82,618 of the 14,73,594 examinees passed the SSC and equivalent examinations under eight general education boards, the Technical Education Board and the Madrassah Education Board.
For the third year in a row, boys did better than girls both in terms of pass percentage and the number of GPA 5 achievers.
The pass rate is 87.41 per cent for boys and 86.64 per cent for girls, while 60,370 boys and 51,531 girls scored GPA 5.
This year, 11,08,683 students took the SSC exams and 9,61,405 of them passed. The number of GPA 5 scorers stood at 93,631, which was 28,682 less than that of 2014.
A total of 2,54,662 students took dakhil exams under madrassah board and 2,29,666 passed. The number of GPA 5 scorers stood at 11,338, which was 2,675 less than that of 2014.
In SSC vocational exams, 91,457 of the 1,10,289 examinees succeeded and the number of GPA 5 scorers stood at 6,932, which was 5,982 more than that of the past year.
In general education, the pass rate stood at 96.35 per cent in science group, 86.39 per cent in commerce group and 79.32 per cent in humanities group.
The highest pass rate was 94.77 per cent in Rajshahi education board and the lowest was 81.82 per cent in Sylhet education board.
The highest number of GPA 5 scorers was 36,801 in Dhaka board and the lowest was 2,452 in Sylhet board.
The education minister announced that from now on boards would not publish a list of top 20 institutions in any public examinations. ‘We have seen that some renowned schools taking illegal steps to get their name on the top 20 list,’ Nahid said.
Education secretary Nazrul Islam Khan said that publishing such list was against the spirit of inclusive education.
In the past, education boards published a list of top 20 institutions on five criteria — regular examinees, total number of examinees, pass percentage, the number of highest GPA 5 scorers and average GPA in the institutions.
Dhaka Education Board chairman Abu Bakar Siddique, Comilla board chairman Indu Bhusan Bhowmik and Dinajpur board chairman Ahmed Hossain said that students poorly performed in mathematics and higher mathematics that reflected in overall results.
A board chairman said that arts students performed dismally this year with 79.32 per cent pass rate.

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