Girls outshine boys in JSC, JDC
PM for retaining JSC,
PEC examinations
Staff Reporter
The results of the Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) exams of eight general education and madrasa boards were published yesterday. The combined pass rate is 93.06%, which is 0.73% higher than that of the previous year. In both JSC and JDC exams, girls are ahead of boys in terms of the pass percentage and the number of Grade Point Average (GPA)-5 this year.
In all, 2,183,975 among 2,346,959 students were successful. This year, 247,588 students in both JSC and JDC have obtained GPA-5, which is 51,325 more than the number of GPA-5 holders in the last year.
Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid disclosed the numbers at a press conference at his office in the Secretariat yesterday. He handed over the results to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence in the morning. Rajshahi board topped the list in terms of the pass percentage (97.68%). Dhaka board came sixth in terms of pass percentage (91.36%), but has the highest number of GPA-5s (86,350), followed by Rajshahi board (40,471). Barisal board holds the second position with a pass rate of 97.38%, followed by Jessore (95.35%), Sylhet (93.37%), Dinajpur (92.99%), Dhaka (91.36%) and Chittagong (90.75%). The pass percentage of Comilla board has been decreasing for the last two years. It scored the lowest pass rate of 89.68%. Its number of students securing GPA-5 has also decreased compared to the previous year.
Sylhet board got the lowest number of GPA-5 holders, 10,255. The average pass rate of the eight general education boards is 92.89%. It was 92.31% in 2015. The pass percentage of the Madrasa board was 94.02% and it got 12,529 GPA-5 holders. The number rose by 3,768 from the last year.
The general education board got 235,059 GPA-5s. The number was 187,502 in 2015.
In overseas institutions, the pass rate is 99.52%, up by 1.31%. The number of GPA-5 holders is 84, which decreased by 27 from last year. This year, 1,018,919 boys out of 1,096,522 were successful, with a pass percentage of 92.92%. Among girls, 1,165,056 out of 1,250,437 were successful with a pass percentage of 93.17%.
Nahid said 141,243 girls got GPA-5, while 106,345 boys got the coveted score. He also said that this year, 9,450 educational institutions had 100 per cent pass rate. This number was 8,583 last year in the nine educational boards. There were also 28 educational institutions from which no student passed. The number of such schools was 43 last year. This year, students from 194 more educational institutions took the exams. Their number was 28,547 last year.
Regarding the positive results, the education minister said the standard of results has improved because of initiatives like distribution of free books, holding of exams on time, distance teaching through television, actions against copying, and use of information and technology.
Nahid also said that he was happy that girls are going ahead of boys. Education is the basis of womens empowerment. Girls are doing better than boys in the exams, he added.
JSC and JDC began on November 1 and ended on November 19.
Meanwhile, taking a stance in favour of retaining JSC and PEC examinations, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said such examinations help students shrug off their anxiety and fear and boost their confidence, reports UNB.
Earlier in the past, the students as well as the guardians used to get nervous during the board exams like SSC and HSC. But, now students are normally appearing before such exams since confidence has boosted among themselves, she said. Sheikh Hasina said this after receiving this years Primary Education Completion (PEC), Junior School Certificate (JSC) and their equivalent examinations results at her official residence Ganobhaban.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid handed over the JSC and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) exams results, while Primary and Mass Education Minister Mustafizur Rahman Fizar handed over the PEC and Ebtedayee exams results to the Prime Minister. The chairmen of eight general education boards and one madrasa board handed over the JSC and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) exam results of their respective board to Sheikh Hasina.
Hasina said there is some sort of controversy over holding of JSC and PEC exams and many even think that these exams would not be held anymore.
Even many guardians expressed their reluctance over holding these exams (PEC and JSC) and it is not understandable to me, she said.
She said students in every tier of education are getting certificates and this is also boosting their self confidence as well as strengthening their foundation for which these exams are being held.
I dont understand why guardians couldnt see the benefits of these (public exams like JSC, PEC) ...through these exams awareness has been created among people while students have become more interested in their academic activities and their confidence level is also boosting. So, I think its very much important since we want to make Bangladesh a poverty-free country, she said. Mentioning that her government attaches due importance to primary education since it is very much important and is the foundation of all education, she said, We need an educated nation to build a poverty-free country and only an educated Nation could build a poverty-free country and thats what I believe. The Prime Minister observed that the children of the country should have to take education in such a way so that they could keep pace in the competitive world.
