More than a third of Myanmar students passed this year’s annual matriculation exam, the sole determining factor in university entrance.
State-run newspaper the Global New Light of Myanmar reported on Sunday that the national pass rate was 37.6 per cent, with 224,847 out of 597,946 entrants passing the exams held in March.
That’s up on last year, when the figure was just 31.76 per cent.
The best results came from the Ayeyarwaddy region, where the average pass rate was 51.78 per cent, followed by Mon state and Magwe region, at 43.4 per cent and 40.86 per cent.
Young people and their parents gathered in schools around the country on Friday night to see their scores.
Photo: Coconuts Yangon/ Aung Naing Soe
