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Big progress in HSC results

59.16pc pass; jump in GPA-5 scorers

Staff Correspondent
Higher secondary education has received an apparent boost as 59.16 percent of the examinees passed the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) Examinations 2005 under the seven education boards, tire highest pass percentage in the last five years.
The percentage was 47.74 in 2004. 38.43 in 2003, 27.09 in 2002, 28.41 in 2001 and 37.05 in 2000.
many as 4,15,088 students -238,295 boys and 176,793 girls -appeared in this year's HSC examinations and 245,549 of them -143,293 boys and 102,256 girls -passed.
Some 5,509 examinees secured
tire liighcst Grade Point Average (GPA)-5 against 3,036 last year.. Among them, 2,804 are from Dhaka’ Board, 284 from Chittagong Board, 1,177 from Rajshahi Board, 492 from Jessore Board, 292 from Comilla Board, 108 from Sylhet Board and 151 from Bansal Board.
Pass percentages for boys and girls are 60.13 and 57.84 against 48.43 and 46.78 of last year. Tire HSC results of the seven boards were published yesterday under the grading system introduced in 2003.
Results of the Alim Examinations under Bangladesh Madrasa Education Board and HSC (Vocational), Business Management, and
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Diploma- in-Commerce Examinations under Bangladesh Technical Education Board were also published yesterday •• all under the gradingsystem.
As many as 23 Alim examinees and two of Business Management students also secured GPA5.
Education Minister Osman Famik handed over the result sheets to Prime Minister Khaleda Zia at her office. State Minister for Education ANM Ehsanul Huq Milon, Education Secretary Faniq Ahmad Siddiqi and the heads of the education boards werepresent.
The prime minister expressed satisfaction over better results this year compared to past few years, increase in the number of students getting GPA-5, falling number of expulsions foradoptingunfair means, and also over considerable decrease in the incidents of cheating in the public examinations.
Khaleda expressed the hope the concerned administrators and teachers will keep up the trend and make more effort and carry out motivational activiticsforbetter resultinfuture.
She also asked them to put emphasis on English education and suggested summoning the principals of the colleges, which did bad in the exams, to know the reasons and overcometheshortcomings.
The education minister said motivational as well as corrective measures are being taken after analysis of the results.
"Students are now taking at tlie examinations better prepared as they know public examinations are being held in a copying-free environment," he told the prime minister.
Rajshahi Board this year fetched
die highest pass.|iercentnge of 65.93 and Sylhet Board the lowest of 4140. Dhaka Board last-year obtained the highest pass percentage of 53.60 and Barisal Board tholowest36.42.
in Dhaka Board, 70,711 of the 132,120 examinees passed the exams with the pass percentage of 53.52. As many as 32,807 students took pan in the exams in Chittagong Board and 18,061 among them passed at 55.05 percent against 43 73 of last year.
Among the 103,281 candidates under Rajshahi Board, 68,096 came out successful with a pass percentage of 65.93 against 45.23 in last year. As many as 68,214 students appeared in the exams under Jessore Board and 43,452 passed. Hie pass percentage is 63.70agai rest list year's42.70.
Under Comilla Board, 20,550 examinees outof34,2!8passcdwllha success rate of 60.06 petcent against 51.80 last year. Barisal Board had 273-13 candidates and 17,085 of them passed The pass percentage Is 62.48 agairtst36.42lastyear.
As many as 17,105 students appeared under Sylhet Boon! and 7,594 came out successful with the pass percentage of 44.40 against last ycafsiaeg.
The percentage of pass is 61.74 in Alim Examinations against 41.40 lost year.3O38inHSC(\fccationaB examinations against 2934 last year, 59.98 in Business \fanagernent examinntions against 6839 last year and 50.97 in Diploma-in-Commercc examlna-tionsagainst7455 lastyeac