Over 90 percent students clear 2015 JSC, JDC exams

The success rate of this year’s Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) exams has gone up and stands at 92.33 percent.

Last year 90.41 percent eighth graders in schools and madrasas had cleared the exams.

A total of 196, 263 students scored GPA 5 out of 5 in 2015.

Success rate for JSC exams stood at 92.31 percent, up from 89.85 percent in 2014 while rates for the JDC exams came down to 92.46 percent from last year’s 93.5 percent.

At a media briefing on Thursday, Education Minister Nurul Islam presented the highlights of the results, which he handed over to the prime minister earlier in the day.

As many as 2.27 million students took the exams this year, held between Nov 1 and 18.

Results on mobile phone SMSs

To get the result through SMS, a JSC or JDC student will have to type ‘JSC or JDC<space>first three letters of board<space>roll number<space>2015’ and send text message to 16222.

Students will be also able to check their results on the website of the corresponding education boards (www.educationboardresults.gov.bd).

Source: Bd news24