CHATTOGRAM, Oct 16, 2025 (BSS)- 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.

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 per 
cent while female students achieved a higher rate of 55.49 per cent.

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.