Dhaka, July 10 -- A total of 134 educational institutions recorded a zero pass rate in this year's Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations, marking a sharp increase from 51 such schools last year.

In contrast, only 984 institutions saw all of their students pass, a significant drop from 2,968 in 2024, according to bdnews24.com reports.

This means 83 more institutions failed to ensure any student passed the exams compared with the previous year, while the number of schools with a 100 percent pass rate fell by 1,984.

The results were officially published simultaneously by all 11 boards at 2pm on Thursday. Unlike previous years, the traditional pre-announcement handover of statistics to the head of government did not take...