Girls have outperformed boys in this year's SSC and equivalent exams, similar to that last year.

A total of 20,41,450 students -- 10,31,647 female and 10,09,803 male -- appeared for this year's exams.

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Among them, the pass rate for female students is 81.88 percent. Meanwhile, 78.87 percent of male candidates have cleared the tests. 

Girls outperformed boys in terms of GPA grades as well. 

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Out of 1,83,578 students who obtained GPA-5 in this year’s SSC and equivalent exams, 98,614 are female students and 84,964 are male. 

Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni announced the results at a press conference at the International Mother Language Institute at Segunbagicha in the capital on Friday.

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