SSC, equivalent exams' success rate at 80.35 percent

The results of this year's Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent exams have been published with 80.35 percent of those who took the exams clearing them.

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid handed over copies of the results to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday morning, as has been the current practice every year.

A total of 104,761 students scored GPA 5 out of the 1,786,613 who took the exams.

The success rate in the school-leaving exams last year was 88.29 percent and 109, 761 scored GPA 5 -- so there has been a drop in both the success rate and those scoring GPA 5.

Like the last year, girls have taken the lead this year. Their pass rate was 80.78 percent as opposed to the boys’ 79.93 percent.

Speaking at the PMO ceremony, Education Minister Nahid said he was not surprised by the drop in the success rate.

"The exams this time were held in an atmosphere free of cheating. The examiners earlier would not evaluate the answer scripts them properly. This time that has not happened."

Prime Minister Hasina said, "The change in method of examining the answer script was timely." 

Congratulating those who cleared the exams, she stressed on building residential institutions in remote areas like the haors, chars (river islands) and hill tracts. "We want everyone to get the opportunity to go to school."

The theoretical SSC and equivalent exams took place between Feb 2 and Mar 2, while the practical exams were held between Mar 4 and Mar 11.

About 1.43 million students sat for the SSC exams under eight general education boards, 256,501 students under the madrasa board and 104,212 students for the SSC vocational exams.

The education minister said the success rate in the SSC exams stands at 81.20 percent, 76.20 percent in the madrasa board and 78.69 percent in the vocational exams.

Nahid is scheduled to announce a summary of the results of the secondary exams at a press conference at the secretariat at 12:30pm. Individual results will be available to students at 2pm.

	2017		2016
Board	Success Rate (%)	GPA 5 scorers	Success Rate (%)
Dhaka	86.39	49,481	88.67
Rajshahi	90.70	17,349	95.70
Comilla	59.03	4,450	84
Jessore	80.04	6,460	91.85
Chittagong	83.99	8,344	90.44
Barisal	77.24	2,288	79.41
Sylhet	80.26	2,663	84.77
Dinajpur	83.98	6,929	89.59
Madrasa	76.20	2,610	88.22
Vocational	78.69	4,187	83.11
Total	80.35	104,761	88.29

Results by SMS

The SSC and equivalent exam results will be available through SMS for all mobile operators.

Students or their guardians can type ‘SSC/DAKHIL<space>the first three letters of the board’s name<space>student’s roll number<space>2017’ and send the message to 16222 to receive the results in an SMS response.

The results will also be available on the education boards’ website, educationboardresults.gov.bd.

Schools can also download the results of their students from the site and can collect hard copies of the results from their respective boards.

In special circumstances, hard copies may also be collected from the district administration and Upazila executive officer’s offices.

Review of results

Requests to review exam results can be made through state-run mobile operator Teletalk from May 5 to 11.

To review the results, students or their guardians can type ‘RSC<space>the first three letters of the board’s name<space>roll number<space>subject code’ and send the SMS to 16222.

An SMS response will inform the sender of the revision fee and provide them with a personal identification number or PIN.

If the sender agrees, they can type ‘RSC<space>YES<space>the PIN number<space>a mobile contact number’ and send the SMS to 16222.

For every subject and every paper to be reviewed, Tk 125 will be charged. Tk 250 will be charged for subjects with two papers.

More than one subject can be reviewed through the same SMS by separating their subject codes with a comma.