Number of institutions with 100 percent failures surges to 134

Only 984 schools had all students pass, full pass rate institutions down by nearly 2,000 from last year

A total of 134 educational institutions recorded a zero pass rate in this year's Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations, marking a sharp increase from 51 such schools last year.

In contrast, only 984 institutions saw all of their students pass, a significant drop from 2,968 in 2024.

This means 83 more institutions failed to ensure any student passed the exams compared with the previous year, while the number of schools with a 100 percent pass rate fell by 1,984.

The results were officially published simultaneously by all 11 boards at 2pm on Thursday. Unlike previous years, the traditional pre-announcement handover of statistics to the head of government did not take place.

YEAR-ON-YEAR COMPARISON

Year	100% Pass Institutions	100% Fail Institutions
2025	984	134
2024	2,968	51
2023	2,354	48
2022	2,975	50
2021	5,494	18

This year, a total of 1.9 million students from 30,088 institutions appeared for the SSC and equivalent exams.

Among them, 1,303,426 students passed, putting the overall pass rate at 68.45 percent across the country’s 11 education boards. A total of 139,032 students secured a GPA 5.

The detailed statistics were presented at a press conference held at the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka by Professor Khondokar Ehsanul Kabir, chairman of the Dhaka board and president of the Inter-Education Board Coordination Committee.

Students have been able to access their results through their respective institutions, the education boards’ websites, and via SMS on mobile phones.

As with last year, the exams were conducted based on the full syllabus, with full marks and allocated time for all subjects.