June 26, 2003	Thursday	Rabi-us-Sani 25,1424

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ISLAMABAD, June 25: Boys outshone girls by clinching top two positions in the secondary school certificate (SSC-II) and composite examinations, 2003. The Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE) annouced the results on Wednesday with a pass percentage of 66.35.

As many as 34,463 students passed all the subjects out of a total of 52,420 appeared candidates.

According to the results, 45,438 regular candidates appeared in the SSC part-II and 6,982 in the composite examinations held in March-April, this year.

Unlike the previous year, most of the top positions have been clinched by boys. Usman Khalid of PAF Degree College, Faisal, Karachi, has secured overall first position by obtaining 790 marks. Naveed Ali of FG Boys Model School, G-9/4, Islamabad, and Adeel Arshad of FG Boys Public School, Multan Cantonment, have shared the overall second position by obtaining 781 marks each.

Interestingly, three girls have shared overall third position by securing 778 marks. These are Zahra Pervaiz of Army Public School, Okara Cantonment; Ayesha Farooq of Margalla Academy, HIT Taxila Cantonment, and Humera Riaz of PAF Inter College, Chaklala, Rawalpindi Cantonment.

Dawood Afzal of Army Public Inter Science College, Gujranwala Cantonment, has bagged third position among boys by securing 775 marks. Sarah Masood of Bahria College, E-8, Islamabad, and Nida Zahra Naqvi of Army Public School, Okara Cantonment, have stood second among girls in science group by securing 771 marks each, while the third position goes to Samia Zamir of Army Public School and College, Humayun Road, Rawalpindi, with 770 marks.

In the general group, among girls Saleha Zia of FG Girls High School No 3, Wah Cantonment, has secured 705 marks and stood first. Mamoona Rauf of Pakistan International School, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, has stood second by getting 671 marks while Faryal Haider of FG Girls Public School, Sher Shah Road, Multan Cantonment, has stood third by getting 670 marks.

Among boys in the same group, Hafiz Moazzum Shah, Hafiz Mujeebur Rahman Asem and Hafiz Siddique-i-Akbar of the Institute of Islamic Sciences, Islamabad, have got first, second and third positions by obtaining 666, 665 and 657 marks, respectively.

The result statistics suggest that 45,438 candidates appeared in the SSC-II examination, out of which 30,392 candidates, including 15,275 boys and 15,117 girls, cleared all the subjects.

Out of the passed candidates, 2,343 students (1,411 girls and 932 boys) secured A-1 grade. As many as 6,087 candidates (3,229 girls and 2,858 boys) passed the exams in A-grade, 8,886 in B- grade and 9,629 in C-grade.

In the composite exams, 4,071 candidates passed out of a total of 6,982 appeared candidates. No candidate could secure A-1 grade, while 15 candidates secured A-grade, 101 B-grade and 800 C-grade. A total of 159 cases of unfair means were reported this year.

The mark sheets of regular candidates would be dispatched to their respective institutions, while the results of private and ex-candidates within the country were being sent to the addresses given in admission forms. The last date for submission of forms for the supplementary examination is July 18, 2003. The board also announced that the SSC Supplementary Examinations 2003 will commence from September 12, 2003.