A total of 40,084 students achieved the highest Grade Point Average (GPA-5) in this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations, according to results published on Saturday.

Education Minister ANM Ehsanul Haque Milon formally inaugurated the publication of the results at an event at the Secretariat in Dhaka at 11:00 am.

Following the announcement, results under all 11 education boards were made available simultaneously online and through educational institutions.

In 2025, an initial 69,097 students secured GPA-5 in the HSC and equivalent examinations. An additional 3,079 students received the highest grade after answer scripts were re-examined and re-evaluated. In 2024, the number of GPA-5 achievers stood at 145,911.

Students can access their results through the education boards’ official websites, eduboardresults.gov.bd and educationboardresults.gov.bd. Results are also available from their respective educational institutions.

Results can additionally be obtained through mobile phone SMS. Students need to type HSC, followed by a space, the first three letters of their education board’s name, another space, their roll number and the examination year, then send the message to 16140.

For example: HSC DHA 123456 2026.

Applications for re-scrutiny and re-evaluation of answer scripts will be accepted online from November 1 to 7. Detailed instructions are available on the respective education boards’ websites.

This year’s HSC and equivalent examinations began on July 2. More than 1.2 million regular and irregular candidates were registered to take part in the examinations.