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Top School Chart in SSC

Rural schools lag behind

Wasim Bin Habib
The same renowned schools have been coming up on the chart of best results for years and almost all of them are in urban areas.
Schools in rural areas are doing better every year with increasing pass rates in the secondary school certificate exams but could not surpass those in the metropolitan areas.The trend is evident in this year's SSC examination results as well.
Urban students do better because they have more access to private tuition and go through extensive classroom activities, educationists say.
A huge number of rural schools lack infrastructure and efficient and trained teachers, which is why their students do not do well in the board exams, they observe. Besides, guardians in the urban areas are more conscious and spend more on children's education.
This year's pass rate hit an all-time record 92.67 percent in the SSC examinations under the eight general education boards. Of the 10,08,174 students
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who passed the examinations, 1,42,276 secured the highest grade, GPA-5.
The education ministry made a list of the top 20 institutions under the education boards based on five indicators - the number of total examinees, percentage of regular examinees, pass rate, the number of students with GPA-5, and the average GPA (grade point average) of students of a school.
Of the top 160 institutions, 69 are state-run schools, which are considered the best in the districts with adequate infrastructure and other facilities. Most of the remaining ones are either cadet colleges or run by specific forces like the army, or are located in district towns.
In Dhaka board, 16 of the top 20 institutions are in the capital.
The four that are outside Dhaka city are Bindu Basini Government Boys' High School in Tangail, Mymensingh Zila School, Mirzapur Cadet College in Tangail, and Mymensingh Girls' Cadet College.
In Rajshahi board, 11 of the top 20 schools are government-run. Seven are either cadet colleges or specialised schools. The remaining two are Biam Model School and College and SOS Herman Gmeiner College, Bogra.
The picture is almost similar for the other boards.
The institutions, which got more government investment, have done better in the examinations, educationist Rasheda K Choudhury said.
The state invests more in cadet colleges, which have good teachers, labs and other facilities, she added.
Students of the private institutions in the towns are more privileged as their families can afford to invest more in their education, said Rasheda, executive director of the Campaign for Popular Education.
“I should say it is a quality divide in education.
“The government should identify which institutions are not doing well and what their problems are. And then it should invest our resources in those institutions," she suggested.