All the students under 11 education boards have passed in last year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations.
The results were graded without holding the exams due to Covid-19 pandemic. Some 161,807 students got GPA-5 in HSC examinations-2020, which is 11.83 percent of the total students.
Last year, a total of 47,286 students got GPA-5, which was 3.54 percent of the total students.
A total of 13, 67,377 HSC examinees were registered for the exams in 2020. The scheduled examinations were cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak in the country.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina unveiled the results through videoconferencing from her official residence Ganabhaban in the capital on Saturday.
Prime Minister said it was a difficult task to prepare the results of the HSC assessment on the basis of the results of the JSC and SSC examinations. She also thanked the authorities concerned for their efforts.
Education Minister Dipu Moni received a summary of the results on behalf of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from the chairmen of the education boards at a ceremony at the International Mother Language Institute in the capital.
Education Minister said, “Some 57,926 students in Dhaka Education Board, 9,364 in Cumilla Board, 12,892 in Jessore Board, 12,143 in Chattogram Board, 5,568 in Barisal Board, 4,242 in Sylhet Board, 14,871 in Dinajpur Board and 10,040 students got GPA-5 in Mymensingh Education Board.”
“Besides, 4,048 students got GPA-5 in Madrasah Education Board and 4,145 students got GPA-5 in Technical Education Board,” she added.
Of the total GPA-5 holder students under 11 education boards, 83,338 are female and 78,469 are male.
Last year’s HSC and equivalent exams were scheduled to begin on Apr 1 but were eventually cancelled due to the outbreak of the coronavirus in the country.
Later, the government decided to grade the students using a stop-gap system of averaging the scores of their JSC and SSC assessments. In this connection, the results have been published after coordinating 75 percent of the SSC and 25 percent from the JSC-JDC results.
However, the authorities could not publish the results without actually holding the exams under the previous legal framework.
Three amendment bills were later passes in the Parliament, allowing the government to publish the results under special circumstances.
The results of the HSC and equivalent exams can be viewed on the education board website amid the coronavirus pandemic. The students and guardians are asked not to go to the educational institutions to collect their results.
The students can also get the results via SMS. Those who have already sent request via SMS will get the results after the announcement.
To know the results, they will need to text HSC<space>first three letters of board<space>roll number<space>2020 and send it to 16222. They will get the results in a return SMS.
Madrasa students, who took the Alim exams, will need to type Alim<space>Mad<space>roll number<space>2020 and send it to 16222.
Technical students will need to type HSC<space>Tec<space>roll number<space>2020 and send SMS to 16222.
