The pass rate for HSC and its equivalent has decreased compared to a few years ago. Along with the decrease in the pass rate, the GPA has decreased by 8,707. The investigation has shown that the results of higher secondary A class in various education boards have decreased for five reasons. These reasons include a significant failure rate in English, poor results in humanities, relatively low results in seven boards, changes in the evaluation system, and the absence of question paper leaks. Statistics have shown that most education boards have relatively low passes in English. While 95.92 percent of students in Dhaka board passed in Bengali, 75.48 percent passed in English. While the pass rate in Dinajpur board was 95.25 percent in Bengali, 65.51 percent passed in English. 35 percent of students in Jessore board failed in English. Similarly, students from other boards also passed less in this regard. In this regard, Rasheda K. Chowdhury, former advisor to the caretaker government, said that students are not responsible for the poor results. Many colleges in the district do not have classes, and there are no trained teachers. Students are doing worse in the district. This is affecting the overall results. He said that along with increasing state investment in education, emphasis should be given to teacher training. Among the eight general education boards, madrasah and technical education boards, it has been seen that the results have decreased compared to last year for various reasons in almost seven boards. The results have worsened more than last year in Sylhet and Jessore boards. In Sylhet, the results have decreased by 9.89 percent compared to last year. In Jessore, the results have decreased by 9.62 percent. In addition, the results have decreased by 5.23 percent in the Dinajpur board, which has had a negative impact on the overall results. In addition, it has been seen that students in the humanities department have performed poorly in all education boards. In the Dhaka Education Board, 81.82 percent of students passed in science, but only 55.23 percent passed in humanities. Similarly, 48.14 percent, 48.31 percent and 44.81 percent of students failed in humanities in Jessore Board, Chittagong Board, Dinajpur Board, Sylhet Board respectively. Humanities students performed poorly in other boards. In this context, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said yesterday that parents teach relatively talented children in science. They admit less talented children in humanities. That is why these students performed poorly. The minister said that this problem would not exist if teachers took extra care in teaching humanities students. Nurul Islam Nahid instructed the board chairmen to find out the reasons for the low results and take an active role in solving them. Meanwhile, there has also been a change in the evaluation of the exam papers this year compared to last year. Earlier, teachers did not give much importance to the evaluation of exam papers in different years. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid also admitted this. Speaking at the Ministry of Education yesterday, Nahid said that teachers evaluated the papers properly. That is why the results have been slightly affected. Those concerned say that the reason behind the decrease in results compared to last year is that there was no question leakage. In previous years, during public examinations including HSC, question papers were circulated on social media including Facebook. Many students performed well after seeing the questions they received before the exam. But in 2018, no complaints of question leakage were received. Educationists believe that many students who were hoping for question leakage did not do well. Although the overall results of HSC and equivalent exams have decreased, former advisor Rasheda K Chowdhury is reluctant to accept this. She told Bangladesh Pratidin yesterday, "I think the exam results are stable. The way students used to pass before created a place of distrust in people's exams. I think we have come out of that situation now. Now the exam papers are being evaluated well. Students are getting appropriate marks.
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