Chattogram: The Chattogram Education Board has achieved a pass rate of 52.57 percent with 6,097 students achieving a GPA-5 in this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations. Both the overall pass rate and the number of Grade Point Average (GPA)-5 holders have declined compared to the previous year.
According to Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, last year, the pass rate stood at 70.32 percent while 10,269 students secured GPA-5. This year’s figures represent a drop of 17.75 percentage points in the pass rate and a decline of around 4,000 in the number of GPA-5 achievers. This year, a total of 102,970 students sat for the examinations, of whom 53,560 students — 26,218 male and 27,342 female — passed the HSC and equivalent examinations which were held from June 26 to August 19, 2025.
Female students have outperformed male candidates in both pass rate and GPA-5 under the board this year. The pass rate among male students was 48.95 percent while female students achieved a higher rate of 55.49 percent.
Chattogram Education Board Controller of examinations Parvez Sajjad Chowdhury disclosed the statistics at a press briefing held at the board auditorium this afternoon. Chattogram Education Board Chairman Ilias Uddin Ahmed, Secretary AKM Shamsu Uddin Azad, and other officials were also present at the briefing.