Chittagong Education Board Receives Over 100,000 Applications for SSC Result Re-evaluation Following Record Low Pass Rates
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CHITTAGONG – The Chittagong Education Board has received over 114,000 applications from students seeking a re-evaluation of their Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination results, following the board’s lowest pass rate in 19 years.
A total of 39,798 students submitted 114,706 applications between August 11 and August 17. The volume of requests is heavily concentrated in core subjects, with 20,400 applications for English and 13,828 for Mathematics. Combined, these two subjects account for over 30 percent of the total appeals. Other subjects with significant request volumes include Bengali with 7,771 applications, Physics with 6,823, Biology with 4,559, Chemistry with 4,535, and Higher Mathematics with 4,440.
The surge in applications follows the August 10 publication of results, which saw a pass rate of 59.48 percent for the Chittagong Education Board. This performance marks the lowest success rate since the introduction of the creative questioning system in 2010 and the lowest overall since 2007. Out of 130,219 students who appeared for the exams across Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Rangamati, Bandarban, and Khagrachhari, 77,453 passed, leaving 52,766 candidates unsuccessful.
A significant portion of the failures was attributed to English and Mathematics. Data shows that 35,876 students failed in English, while 25,783 failed in Mathematics.
In a departure from previous years, the Board of Education has updated its re-evaluation protocol. Historically, the re-scrutiny process was limited to verifying that marks had been tallied correctly. Under the new policy, students now have the opportunity to request a comprehensive re-assessment of their answer scripts to ensure that the initial grading was accurate.
Professor Parvez Sajjad Chowdhury, Controller of Examinations for the Chittagong Education Board, stated that the board has appointed approximately 287 examiners to handle the detailed re-assessment process. The majority of these examiners have been assigned to review the English and Mathematics papers.
Past re-evaluation cycles have frequently identified clerical errors in mark tabulations, often resulting in altered outcomes and an increase in the total number of successful candidates. Officials hope that the inclusion of content-based re-assessment will ensure greater transparency and fairness for the 1,268 schools participating under the board’s jurisdiction.
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