Hossen Sohel of DOT
The pass rate for this year’s eighth grade Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations is 85.83 percent, reports bdnews24.com.
This year 68,095 students have received a GPA 5.0.
The pass rate has increased 2.18 percentage points from last year, but the number of students who received a GPA 5.0 has dropped sharply.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid and the chairmen of the education boards presented a summary of the results to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Ganabhaban yesterday.
Last year 83.65 percent of JSC-JDC examinees passed their examinations, while 191,628 received a GPA 5.0.
The education minister discussed the results after handing over the summary.
Previously the results were calculated using the marks received in the students’ fourth subject, he said.
But this year it was not done in accordance with the updates to evaluation methods, leading to the decline in GPA 5.0 recipients, he added.
The education minister will hold a media conference at the Secretariat at 12pm to highlight various aspects of this year’s examination results. Examinees will receive their results after the end of the media conference.
A total of 2,670,333 students gave the JSC-JDC examinations from Nov 1 to Nov 15 this year.
Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman also presented a summary of the Primary School Certificate (PSC) results to Sheikh Hasina.
But the minister did not disclose the pass rate or the GPA 5.0 rate at the event. The minister will provide details of the PSC results at a media conference at the Ministry of Mass Education at 1pm on Monday.