Bangladesh
Board by board: Cumilla at 48.04%, Sylhet at a 13-year low, the technical board at 49.43%
Eleven boards, and the ones that have reported sit in a narrow and uniformly low band. The madrasah board is the one that breaks the…
Tech BD
Bangladesh
594,113 students failed, and about 422,000 of them failed only one or two subjects
For most of the students who did not pass today, the outcome is one or two papers to re-sit — not a lost year. The review window opens on 1…
Bangladesh
Inside one education board, the pass rate runs from 66.20% to 29.85%
The board average hides a gap of more than 36 points between the city and the hill districts in the same examination.
Bangladesh
Girls passed by 8.56 points more than boys, and boys took GPA-5 by 642
The two statistics point opposite ways, and the gap between them is the interesting part rather than either number alone.
Bangladesh
293 colleges where nobody passed, and 139 where everybody did — both tails moved the wrong way
The average tells you less than the distribution does. One end quadrupled in two years; the other lost three-fifths of its members in one.
Bangladesh
GPA-5 has gone from 145,911 to 40,084 in two years — a 72% fall in the top grade
A 42% fall on last year, which was itself less than half of the year before. The top of the grade distribution has changed shape twice…
Bangladesh
Two subjects account for 382,021 of this year’s HSC failures, and one of them is ICT
Against 594,113 total failures, the two subjects are the overwhelming share. ICT is a compulsory paper that almost no school is equipped to…
Bangladesh
How to check your HSC result — and why the SMS number is not the one you used last year
Three official channels, one of them changed this week. The ministry, the boards and newspaper offices hold no results at all.
Bangladesh
HSC 2026: the pass rate has fallen to 52.12%, the lowest in 22 years
Last year 58.83% passed. The only lower figure on record is 2004, when the examination was held under seven boards rather than eleven.
World
Webb has photographed stars being born inside N159, and the colours in the picture are a chemical readout
The orange is light from carbon-based molecules; the dark red filaments are cold hydrogen shielding the new stars. The picture is data, not…
World
Two blockchain analysis firms name North Korea’s Lazarus Group over the Binance theft — the same unit the FBI blamed for Bybit
Attribution in cyber-attacks is usually hedged. Two firms saying “high confidence” about the same unit, days after the event, is unusually…
World
The Earth has pulsed every 26 seconds for sixty years and nobody has explained why
It is not a mystery because it is hard to detect. It is a mystery because it causes no damage, so nobody has had a reason to fund solving…