Special HSC Exam for Students Who Failed One or Two Subjects on 2-3 December, Results on 23 December
A special examination for students who failed in one or two subjects in this year's Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations will be held on 2 and 3 December. The results of that examination will be published on 23 December.
Education and Primary and Mass Education Minister Dr A N M Ehsanul Haque Milan announced the decision to reporters on Thursday morning after visiting Samsul Haq Khan School and College at Matuail in the capital.
This year the combined pass rate across the country's 11 education boards stood at 52.12 percent, the lowest in the last two decades.
In the previous year, 2025, the pass rate was 58.83 percent and 69,097 students had obtained GPA-5 that year.
This year a total of 1,240,798 students took part in the examination and 646,685 of them passed.
Girls have done better than boys in the results. With 356,528 girls passing, the girls' pass rate stood at 56.31 percent. The boys' pass rate is 47.75 percent and the number of boys who passed is 290,157.
A total of 40,084 students obtained GPA-5. Among them, 20,363 are boys and 19,721 are girls.
Alongside the overall decline in results, the number of institutions with a hundred percent failure has also risen. This year no examinee passed from 293 institutions, which is 91 more than the previous year's 202 zero-pass institutions.
This year's HSC and equivalent examinations began on 2 July and ended on 8 August, and the practical examinations were to be completed in mid-August.
However, because of natural disasters, examinations in some subjects under the Chattogram education board had to be postponed. Those examinations were later held under a new schedule, so that board's written examinations ran until 9 September.
Under the minister's announcement, students who failed in one or two subjects will now sit the special examination on 2 and 3 December, and the results of that examination will be published on 23 December.
