ONCE again the key attraction of this year’s primary and junior certificate exams has been the show-stopping performance of our girls. According to results of the public examinations published day before yesterday, they are way ahead form their counterparts, in terms of both, participation and success rate to achieve the highest grades. Education undeniably plays the pivotal role in women empowerment and the results of girls make us optimistic. We nevertheless, expect them to remain steady in performing well at school. Also the sequence of their good results should prepare them for more competitive exams in the future. Needs mentioning, it is rather worrying since the drop-out rates of girls increase in higher classes in Bangladesh. This predicament needs to be addressed collectively by teachers and concerned education authorities.
The successive good results of our girls should have actually inspired our boys to move ahead following an added zeal to outshine them but that hasn’t however, happened. Not that our boys are becoming incompetent, but their overall passing rate, grades and numbers , all together are continually falling behind the total success rate of girls.
In primary terminal examinations, some 98.51 percent children came out successfully. The number of GPA-5 (Grade Point Average) achievers also rose by a few thousand but what our educational authorities must comprehend at this stage is – obtaining GPA five necessarily doesn’t define a student to be good or bad. Given the habit of systematic studying, following course curriculum regularly any student has the potentials for scoring the highest GPA rate, but a good student is he who is more capable than just prove his true value beyond academic studies at schools. Apart from targeting only for the top GPA rate, our students should, in fact, particularly aim to acquire knowledge at par with their international counterparts. Move ahead with an objective. Finally, get more global instead of restricting their selves within text books.
Like in previous year, the highest numbers of examinees were recorded from the Rajshahi board. However, officials and teachers have reportedly claimed students’ to have performed better in English and maths this year. Usually it’s any one out of the two subjects that makes the difference in results. Students have done well in these subjects. It was indeed a mark improvement in general among our students.
Lastly, the continuity of our primary and junior certificate exams must continue unhindered.