Girls outshine the boys in this year’s result of Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations. The girl’s pass rate under the 10 education boards all over the country is 76.44 per cent while the pass rate of boys is 71.67 per cent.

The number of colleges with 100 per cent pass rate in this year's Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations result increases by more than double this year compared to that of 2018.

The Higher Secondary Certificate examinations on 13 subjects under the eight general education boards have been rescheduled due to the observance of holy Shab-e-Barat, said an official.

As many as 14,988 candidates were absent from the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations and 27 others were expelled on the first day of the exam yesterday.

More than 13 lakh students sit for the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations this morning with the government taking various measures to prevent question leak.

The government will impose a forced closure to all activities of coaching centres from April ahead of the HSC examinations.