For six straight years, Madrasa Education Board has topped the success charts, among the 10 education boards achieving an astounding 89.57 percent pass rate in this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations.
The average success rate of the board has increased by more than three percent this year compared to that of last year and the board’s pass rate is 14.49 percentage point higher than the overall pass rate, according to the results published yesterday.
The average pass rate of the 10 educational boards is 75.08 percent.
A total of 77,215 examinees — 31, 530 of them female– appeared for the examination. Of them 68,086 passed in the Alim examinations under Madrasa Board this year. Male students have performed slightly better securing 89.73 percent pass rate as opposed to 89.34 percent achieved by female students.
Of those passed under madrasa board, 4,276 examinees, including 1,285 females, scored GPA-5 this year. Number of GPA-5 holders under this board was 2,957 last year.
Last year, the board secured 86.55 percent pass rate while the overall pass rate of the other boards was 74.28 percent. In 2009, 84.14 percent students passed under the board, while the overall pass rate in the nine educational boards was 72.78 percent.
A total of 682 madrasas obtained 100 percent success rate — down from 546 last year. Three madrasas have failed to produce any success whatsoever with not a single student passing from those.
Tamirul Millat Kamil Madrasa in Dhaka ranked top, while Jhalokathi NS Kamil Madrasa and Tamirul Millat Kamil Madrasa in Tongi of Gazipur secured the second and third positions respectively in this board.
Meanwhile, the Technical Education Board also witnessed a slight increase in the pass rate which stands at 84.05 percent, as opposed to its previous year’s 82.48 percent.
Out of 62,654 candidates who took the exams, 52,662 students — 21,403 female — passed with 728 students, 341 female, achieving GPA-5. Only 202 students secured GPA-5 under the board last year.
Abeda Noor Business Management Institute in Comilla secured the top rank in the Technical Education Board.
Out of 735 expelled students in the examination this year, 107 are of Madrasa Board and 181 of Technical board.
-With The Daily Star input
