A total of 47,286 students achieved a GPA of 5.0, compared to 29,262 in 2018.
The education ministry published the results of the exams on Wednesday.
Compared with last year, the overall success rate has increased by 7.29 percentage points while the number of GPA-5 recipients rose by 18,024.
The minister briefed the media on different aspects of this year’s results at her Secretariat office at 12:30pm.
She thanked everyone iinvolved with the exams for their efforts to prevent question paper leaks and cheating. “There was no rumour or confusion about the exams either,” she said.
Hasina described the pass rate as “acceptable and good enough”, and congratulated the successful candidates. She also encouraged the failed students to do better in the future.
The results will also be available on mobile phone via SMS.
To know the results, a student will have to type “HSC<space>first three letters of board<space>roll number<space>2019” and send SMS to 16222. They will get the result in a reply SMS.
Madrasa students will have to type “Alim<space>Mad<space>roll number<space>2019” and send SMS to 16222. They will get the result in a reply SMS.
For vocational board students, the SMS should read “HSC<space>Tec<space>roll number<space>2019” and be set to 16222.
Over 1.35 million students sat the HSC and equivalent tests held between Apr 1 and May 12 at 2,579 centres across Bangladesh.