KARACHI, Oct 25: The Board of Intermediate Education on Saturday announced results of HSC Part-I, Humanities (Regular), Commerce (Regular and Private) and Humanities (Special students) annual examinations-2003.

A senior official at the board said that the last two results of the intermediate examinations, ie Pre-engineering (Part-I) and Humanities, private, (Part-I), would be declared on Oct 27 and Oct 29, respectively.

According to the BIE statistics, as much as 14,734 candidates, including 1,679 males, appeared in the Humanities examinations, while another 16,973 candidates, including 11,684 males, took the Commerce (regular) examination. A total of 5,386 candidates, including 4,187 males, appeared in Commerce (Private) examinations.

The breakdown of candidates having cleared different papers are as follows:

Humanities (regular) Part-I; all six papers have been cleared by 5,443 candidates, five papers by 4,072 candidates, four papers by 2,438, three papers by 1,395, two papers by 789 and one paper has been passed by 439 candidates.

Commerce (regular), Part-I; all the seven papers have been passed by 5,520 candidates, six papers by 3,258, five papers by 2,475, four papers by 1,944, three papers by 949 and one paper has been passed by 573 candidates.

Commerce (private) Part-I; all seven papers have been passed by 1,113, six papers by 1,064, five papers by 1,011, four papers by 805, three papers by 707, Two papers by 376 and one paper has been passed by 263 candidates.

A total of 76 special candidates took the Humanities (Part-I) annual examination, out of which 73 were declared pass.