Dhaka aces out other boards in GPA-5, Jashore leads in pass rate

Students in Jashore have shone with the best success rate and their peers in Dhaka have topped the chart of GPA-5 achievers in HSC exams like every year.

In the Higher Secondary Certificate exams, Jashore reported that 98.11 percent of the examinees passed the tests. Chattogram was the worst with a pass rate of 89.39 percent.

As many as 59,233 students in Dhaka bagged the GPA-5, while Sylhet has the lowest number of GPA-5 winners with only 4,731 students scoring it.

More than 19 percent of those who passed the HSC in Dhaka scored GPA-5, while the rate was 7.1 percent in Sylhet.

Education Minister Dipu Moni presented the detailed HSC 2021 results at the International Mother Language Institute in Dhaka on Sunday.

Students achieved a 95.26 percent pass rate in the 2021 HSC and equivalent exams. As many as 189,169 students scored GPA-5.

HSC RESULTS AT A GLANCE

	2021		2020		2019
Board	Pass rate %	GPA-5	Pass rate %	GPA-5	Pass rate %	GPA-5
Dhaka	96.20	59,233	100	57,926	71.09	18,187
Rajshahi	97.29	32,8000	100	26,568	76.38	6,729
Cumilla	97.49	14,153	100	9,364	77.74	2,375
Jashore	98.11	20,878	100	12,892	75.65	5,312
Chattogram	89.39	13,720	100	12,143	62.19	2,860
Barishal	95.76	9,971	100	5,568	70.65	1,201
Sylhet	94.80	4,731	100	4,242	67.05	1,094
Dinajpur	92.43	15,349	100	14,871	71.78	4,049
Mymensingh	95.71	7,687	100	10,040
Madrasa	95.49	4,872	100	4,048	86.56	2,243
Technical	92.85	5,775	100	4,145	82.62	3,236
Total	95.26	189,169	100	161,807	73.93	47,286

Close to 1.4 million students from 9,183 institutions took their HSC and equivalent exams on Dec 2 at 2,621 centres under nine education boards, including the madrasa and technical boards. Of the examinees, 189,169 achieved a GPA of 5.0.