HSC 2024: Pass rate highest in Sylhet, lowest in Mymensingh

Sylhet Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board has secured a 85.39 % pass rate, the highest among the nine boards in the 2024 in the results of HSC examination on Tuesday. Mymensingh Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board ranked the lowest with 63.22 per cent.

The overall pass rates in other general education boards of the country are: 79.21 per cent in Dhaka, 81.85 per cent in Barishal, 70.32 per cent in Chattogram, 71.15 in Cumilla, 77.56 per cent in Dinajpur, 81.24 per cent in Rajshahi and 64.29 per cent in Jashore board.

The pass rate is 88.09 per cent under the technical education board and 93.40 per cent under the madrasah board.

This year, overall 77.78 per cent of the examinees passed the exam and a total of 145,911 students got GPA 5.00 while the number was 92,365 in the previous year.

A total of 14,50,790 students from nine general education boards, madrasah board and technical board were expected to sit for the exams from 9,463 educational institutions at 2,275 centres across the country.

HSC results this year were prepared through subject mapping, where marks for six cancelled exams were calculated based on students' results from the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent exams.

For subjects where exams were conducted, the answer sheets were evaluated based on the full marks for those subjects.