The average pass rate has dropped by 0.86% compared to last year in the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations as the results were announced today.

Results of the HSC and equivalent examinations were published at 11 am on Tuesday (15 October).

This year the average pass rate in the 11 education boards of the country is 77.78%, which was 78.64% last year, a source in the education ministry said.

A total of 14,50,790 students from nine general Education Boards, Madrasah Board and Technical Board were expected to sit for the exams from 9,463 educational institutions at 2,275 centres across the country.

The education ministry had decided to evaluate the students using the subject mapping method for other subjects based on the SSC results as all the exams could not be taken due to student protests.

Students will be able to check their results through SMS and official websites.

Visiting the Dhaka Education Board website (www.dhakaeducationboard.gov.bd), www.educationboardresults.gov.bd, or www.eduboardresults.gov.bd, and clicking on the "Result" section, institutions can download result sheets by entering their EIIN number.

Besides, students can download their individual result sheets using their roll and registration numbers.

Results will also be accessible via the board's official Android app. Furthermore, students who pre-register via SMS will receive their results directly on their mobile phones.

To pre-register, students must go to the message option of any mobile operator and type: HSC<>Board Name (First 3 Letters)<>Roll<>Year and send it to 16222.

The HSC exams began on 30 June, except in Sylhet division due to flood where the exams started later on 9 July.

After exams on seven subjects, the exams were disrupted due to quota reform movement.

The exams were postponed several times as protests escalated across the country. After the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led government on 5 August, the interim government rescheduled the exams for 11 September.

However, amid ongoing protests by some candidates, the remaining exams were cancelled on August 20.

As a result, the government decided to calculate the scores for the six cancelled exams using the subject mapping method, based on students' results from their SSC exams.