Students of Madrasa Board did exceptionally well compared to those of the other nine education boards' with a pass rate of 85.85. About 1,59,444 students came out successful and of them 16,309 obtained GPA-5.

Students of Sylhet Education Board did better than those of the seven other general education boards. Sylhet Education Board had 78.71 percent of their examinees passed while Rajshahi Board had the lowest, 58.41 percent, of students passed.

In Sylhet Board 29,443 students came out successful and 1,896 of them obtained GPA-5. Last year, Sylhet Board had the lowest percentage of pupils passed.

In Dhaka Board, 69.11 percent, about 1,65,570 students, passed the SSC exams with 19,086 students securing GPA-5.

About 66,457 students or 58.41 percent passed the exam in Rajshahi Board with 4,474 achieving GPA-5.

In Comilla Education Board, 64,266 students, 72.77 percent, came out successful and 4,202 got GPA-5.

In Jessore Board, 72,271 students or 68.01 percent passed and 4,767 achieved GPA-5.

In Chittagong Board, 43,132 examinees passed with a success rate of 69.61 and 4,529 of them scored GPA-5.

In Barisal Board, 31,826 students were successful with a pass percentage of 65.63, while number of GPA-5 achievers is 1,688.

In Dinajpur Education Board, the pass rate is 63.58 percent. The number of GPA-5 securers is 5,292.

Students of the SSC (vocational) also did well this year with 70.90 percent passed. Some 53,216 students passed the exam, while 64 of them got GPA-5.

The success of science group students marked a slight drop to 83.75 percent compared to last year's figures. In humanities group 55.10 percent students passed and 72.06 percent passed in the business studies and commerce group.

Like the previous years, schools in urban areas, especially in the metropolitan cities, dominated with high number of the GPA-5 achievers and cent percent pass records.