Around 68.45 percent of students passed this year's Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations, marking a 14.59 percentage point drop from last year's pass rate.
The number of students to achieve GPA-5 this year is 139,032, down significantly from last year's total of 182,129.
Girls outperformed boys in both pass percentage and GPA-5 achievement this year.
65.88 percent of male students passed SSC and equivalent exams this year, while 71.03 percent of girls got passing grades.
The number of girls with GPA-5 is 73,616 this year, compared to 65,416 boys who achieved the highest grade.
Among SSC students under the nine general education boards, 68.04 percent passed. The number of GPA-5 achievers in these nine boards was 1,25,018.
The pass percentage for students who sat for the Dakhil exam under the Madrasa Education Board this year is 68.09, with 9,066 getting GPA-5.
Among students under the Technical Education Board, who sat for SSC (Vocational) and Dakhil (Vocational) exams, 73.63 percent got passing grades. A total of 4,948 technical students got GPA-5 this year.
This year's SSC and equivalent exams began on April 10 and ended on May 13. The practical exams were held between May 15 and 22. Around 19.28 lakh students registered for the exams, over one lakh less compared to previous year.
Of them, a total 14,90,142 registered under nine general education boards, while 2,94,726 under the Madrasa Education Board, and 1,43,313 under the Technical Education Board.
