Female students outperformed the male candidates in this year's Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent exams, securing both higher pass rates and GPA grades.
A total of 19,04,086 students – 9,52,389 female and 9,51,697 male -- sat for this year's exams.
Of them, 13,03,426 students passed this year's exams – 6,76,445 girls and 6,26,981 boys -- with girls outnumbering boys by 49,464.
The pass rate of female students is 71.03 percent while it is 65.88 percent among boys -- a gap of 5.15 percentage point.
Among the total, 73,616 girls secured GPA-5 while 65,416 boys achieved the highest grade point average, which is 8,200 more than the boys.
