The pass rate in the Secondary School Certificate and equivalent exams is 82.2 per cent this year.
The number of GPA-5 achievers is 105,594, according to results announced by Education Minister Dipu Moni on Monday.
Last year, the pass rate in the SSC and equivalent exams was 77.77 per cent and the number of GPA achievers was 110,629.
Over 2.13 million students took part in this year’s SSC and equivalent exams.
The results will be available to the students at 12 noon on the websites of their education boards and SMS services. No hardcopy of the results will be provided as downloadable sheets of results will be there on the websites.
Any institution can ask the offices of deputy commissioners and Upazila executive officers for hardcopies of results in special cases, officials at the inter-board coordination subcommittee said, bdnews24.com reports.
To know the results via SMS, a student will have to write "SSC/DAKHIL<space>first three letters of board’s name<space>roll number<space>2019" and send it to 16222 from any mobile phone.
The candidates, who want re-evaluation of answer sheets, can apply between Tuesday and next Monday via SMS from Teletalk numbers.
Subject codes can be put in one SMS with commas between them. The students will be charged Tk 125 per subject but Tk 250 for subjects with two papers.
