Girls down boys

Girls down boys

Dhaka, July 19 (Just News): Female students have outshined the male candidates in this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate examinations.

The girl’s pass rate of all education boards is 69.72 percent while the pass rate of boys is 63.88 percent, according to a private television channel.

Results of HSC and equivalent examinations-2018 were handed over to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, which follows through with the falling trend of last year.

This year, a total of 13,11,457 examinees from 8,864 educational institutions appeared in the examinations. Of them, 5,47,989 are female and 6, 35,697 male.

Last year too, girls beat the boys with their pass rate about 2.28 percentage points higher than their counterparts.

(Justnews/ys/1320hr)