The average pass rate of last year's Higher Secondary School Certificate and its equivalent exams is 85.95%.
The HSC exam results were published on Wednesday afternoon.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina published the results of the Higher Secondary School Certificate and its equivalent exams at noon on Wednesday.
Girls had outperformed boys in the exams, the prime minister said, after being handed the summarized results by Education Minister Dipu Moni, along with the chairmen of all the education boards, at the Prime Minister's Office in Dhaka.
She added that female students had a 2.5% higher pass rate than their male counterparts.
