A total of 134 educational institutions recorded a zero pass rate in this year's Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations, marking a sharp increase from 51 such schools last year.

In contrast, only 984 institutions saw all of their students pass, a significant drop from 2,968 in 2024.

This means 83 more institutions failed to ensure any student passed the exams compared with the previous year, while the number of schools with a 100 percent pass rate fell by 1,984.

YEAR-ON-YEAR COMPARISON

This year, a total of 1.9 million students from 30,088 institutions appeared for the SSC and equivalent exams.

Among them, 1,303,426 students passed, putting the overall pass rate at 68.45 percent across the country’s 11 education boards. A total of 139,032 students secured a GPA 5.

The detailed statistics were presented at a press conference held at the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka by Professor Khondokar Ehsanul Kabir, chairman of the Dhaka board and president of the Inter-Education Board Coordination Committee.

Students have been able to access their results through their respective institutions, the education boards’ websites, and via SMS on mobile phones.

As with last year, the exams were conducted based on the full syllabus, with full marks and allocated time for all subjects.