The HSC exam results for 2017 showed a significant drop in pass rates compared to the previous year. The overall pass rate fell by 5 percentage points to 66.84%. GPA 5 scores also decreased. Girls outperformed boys with a pass rate of 70.43% versus 67.61% for boys. Science students had the highest pass rate at 83.14% while humanities was the lowest at 58.14%. Sylhet board had the highest pass rate of 72% while Comilla had the lowest at 49.52%. Officials cited poor performance in English as contributing to the lower overall results.

1. HSC Result Analysis

2. Group Members
Abdul Kahir
Abdul Mohaimin Rahat

3. Introduction
The results of this year's HSC examinations saw a significant fall
in both the success rate and the number of GPA. Students
performe poor in English and shocking performance of students
of Comilla board.
The overall passing rate of HSC examinees under eight
education boards dropped by more than 5 percentage points to
66.84 percent.The number of students having achieved the
highest grade -- GPA 5 -- also came down to 33,242 from last
year's 48,950.

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5. Although more boys sat for the examinations, the girls retained the top
success rate fighting against all the Boys.
Among the successful students this year, 70.43 percent girls passed the
examinations whereas the percentage of boys is 67.61.
A total of 6,24,675 boys and 5,38,595 girls appeared for the HSC
examinations this year.
Total 68.91 percent students passed the HSC and this is 5.79 percentage
lower than that of previous year.

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2017 69.74 72 49.52 61.09 71.3 70.28 65.44 70.02 77.02 81.33
2016 73.53 68.59 64.49 64.6 75.4 70.13 70.64 83.42 88.19 84.57
2015 68.16 74.57 59.8 63.49 77.54 70.06 70.36 46.65 90.19 85.68
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7. GIRLS DID BETTER
Girls did better than boys in 2017 HSC exam. Students from 8,771
institutions took part in the examinations this year.
Like this year's SSC exams, girls have done better than boys
as their pass rate is 2.28 percentage points higher than their
Boys.
"This is very encouraging for us that girls are doing well,"
the minister said.
However, boys are better to achieving the highest grade
compair to girls. A total of 20,535 boys secured GPA-5, while
17,434 girls got the highest grade.

8. SCIENCE STUDENTS LEAD
As usual, students from the science group under eight
boards did the best with a pass rate of 83.14 percent,
followed by 69.65 percent in the business studies
group and 58.14 percent in the humanities group.
"Several years ago, the number of students studying
science was declining, which was alarming. But the
trend has been reversed as we see the number of
students studying science is on the rise," Nahid said.

9. Sylhet board topped the chart in terms of success rate
with 72 percent.
Sylhet board has left behind seven other education boards of Bangladesh with the highest
success rate in Higher Secondary Certificate or HSC exam this year.
Comilla lies on the other end of the list like the previous year.
In Sylhet, 72 percent of the students have cleared the exams while in Comilla 49.52 percent.
The overall success rate of HSC and equivalent higher secondary exams has fallen to 68.91
from 74.7 percent last year, according to Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid.
A total of 37,969 students scored a GPA of 5 against 58,276 in 2016.
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10. 532 colleges achieve 100pc pass rate.
A total of 532 educational institutions have
achieved 100 percent pass in the Higher
Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its
equivalent examinations across the country
this year.
A total of 848 institutions achieved 100
percent pass rate in the examinations last
year.

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2016 28110 6073 1912 4586 2253 787 1330 3899 2414 6587
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13. SHOCKING PERFORMANCE OF COMILLA
STUDENTS
A startling low pass rate of students under Comilla
board pushed down the overall pass rate. Only 49.53
percent students came out successful causing this
board to be at the bottom of the result chart.
A little over 1 lakh students took part in the exams.
Only 62 percent of them passed English, according to
the data.
Chairmen of the education boards, officials and
teachers have cited several reasons behind the
students' poor performance this year.
They said the students performed badly in English,
which impacted on the overall results.

14. Conclusion
There is nothing to be surprised....We are getting the right assessment now, thanks to new
evaluation method,” said Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid as he announced results at a
crowded press conference at the ministry.
The method named "standardisation of answer scripts" was first introduced for Secondary
School Certificate examinees this year. And subsequently, the results showed a significant
fall in the pass rate.
Explaining the new evaluation method, Nahid said chief examiners in consultation with
senior examiners set model answers of the questions.
Considering the model answers as the standard, the examiners checked the answer scripts.
"This method has been appreciated by everyone."
The measure was taken following a research conducted by the Bangladesh Examination
Development Unit on the existing evaluating system. "We have been working for the last
three years to develop a standard procedure to evaluate answer scripts.
"Earlier we found that the examiners did not evaluate the answer scripts properly.The usual
practice was that the listed examiners first collected scripts from the boards, checked those
and returned to the boards.There was no monitoring mechanism or any specific rule to
check the scripts," Nahid said, elaborating further.

15. Thank you