Dhaka: This year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination results show an over eight-percent drop in the pass rate from last year.

This year 80.35 per cent students passed while last year the figure was 88.29.

This year’s success rate is 7.94 percentage points lower than that of last year.

In ten education boards, around 14,31,722 passed the SSC examinations this year.

As many as 1,04,761  students secured the highest Grade Point Average (GPA-5) this year where as it was 1,09,761 in 2016.

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid formally handed over a copy of the results to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Gono Bhaban in presence on Thursday morning.

The results will be published officially at about 1:00pm. The students can get the results from their respective school or it will also be available on www.educationboardresults.gov.bd

This year, 17,86,613 students—9,10,501 boys and 8,76,112 girls—participated in the examinations.

Of them, 14,25,900 students appeared in the SSC examination under eight general education boards. Some 2,56,501 students participated in the Dakhil examinations while 1,04,212 students attended in the SSC vocational examinations.