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Home > Bangladesh Pass rate of HSC, equivalent exams jumps to 73.93% Staff Correspondent, bdnews24.com Published: 17 Jul 2019 10:43 AM BdST Updated: 18 Jul 2019 03:50 AM BdST Previous Next The pass rate of the HSC and equivalent exams has risen to 73.93 percent this year from 66.64 percent a year ago. A total of 47,286 students achieved a GPA of 5.0, compared to 29,262 in 2018. The education ministry published the results of the exams on Wednesday. Compared with last year, the overall success rate has increased by 7.29 percentage points while the number of GPA-5 recipients rose by 18,024. Education Minister Dipu Moni handed over the summary of the results to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Ganabhaban. The minister briefed the media on different aspects of this year’s results at her Secretariat office at 12:30pm. She thanked everyone iinvolved with the exams for their efforts to prevent question paper leaks and cheating. “There was no rumour or confusion about the exams either,” she said. Hasina described the pass rate as “acceptable and good enough”, and congratulated the successful candidates. She also encouraged the failed students to do better in the future. Besides their institutions, the results will be available for the students from 1pm on the website of the education boards (http://www.educationboard.gov.bd). The results will also be available on mobile phone via SMS. To know the results, a student will have to type “HSCfirst three letters of boardroll number2019” and send SMS to 16222. They will get the result in a reply SMS. Madrasa students will have to type “AlimMadroll number2019” and send SMS to 16222. They will get the result in a reply SMS. For vocational board students, the SMS should read “HSCTecroll number2019” and be set to 16222. Over 1.35 million students sat the HSC and equivalent tests held between Apr 1 and May