Dhaka: Female students in the HSC (Higher Secondary Certificate) and equivalent examinations have outnumbered the male students in terms of pass rate this year.

According to the results published here today, percentage of pass of female students is 75.60 while that of the male students is 73.93. On an average 74.70 percent of examinees passed examinations under 10 education boards of the country.

As many as 6,45,798 male students participated in the examination while the number of female students was 5,57,842, it added.