Staff Reporter:
Girls outshined boys in the HSC and equivalent exams this year too with 80.57% girls passing the exams as against 76.76% boys.
Girls showed their brilliance in achieving highest Grade Point Average GPA-5 as girls secured 49,365 GPA-5 against boys’ 43,230.
The number of boys who appeared for the exams was high compared to the girls this year. A total of 6, 98,135 boys and 6, 76,353 girls sat for the exams under 11 education boards across the coun-try.
This year a total of 13, 74,488 students sat for HSC and equivalent exams from August 17 to Sep-tember 25.
A total of 10, 67, 852 students passed the exams and the results were handed over to Prime Minis-ter Sheikh Hasina by Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni in the morning.
The overall pass rate was 85.95 last year but this year it stood at 78.64 percent, a decline by 3.81 percent.