KARACHI, Sept 17: The Board of Intermediate Education, Karachi on Sunday declared separately the results of HSC pre-engineering and Science General groups’ annual examination 2006.
The overall pass percentage of candidates in the pre-engineering examinations remained at 54.90, almost 3.5 per cent higher than that of the last year, and it was 41.32 in the Science General group.
As far as the top three positions were concerned, according to the BIE notification, it was a fifty-fifty affair in the pre-engineering group while all the merit positions were clinched by girl students in the Science General group. It remained a neck and neck in the pre-engineering as there was a difference of four marks between the first and third position holders.
As many as 21,875 candidates, including 6,556 woman candidates, appeared in the pre-engineering examinations, out of which 12,006, including 3,608 women, were declared successful. Umm-i-Aiman, seat no 397374, of St Joseph’s College for Women, bagged the first position by securing 967 marks out of 1,100.
The second position was shared by two students, Mohammad Hassam, seat no 383376, of Adamjee Science College, and Munawer Ali, seat no 390573, of the Aga Khan Higher Secondary School, Karimabad, who secured 964 marks each. The third position went to Sana Siddiqui, seat no 397360, of St Joseph’s College for Women, who secured 963 marks.
In the Science General group the first three positions in the merit list were secured by the students of DA Degree College for Women. They are Hina Mohammad Yasin Manekia, seat no 449260 (first position), Sana Mohammad Yasin Manekia, seat no 449280 (second) and Sundus Yahya, seat no 449276 (third).
The breakdowns of successful candidates of the two examinations are as follows:
Pre-engineering; A-1 grade 314 males and 195 females, A grade 1,199 males and 737 females, B grade 2,065 males and 1,097 female, C grade 2,579 males and 1,065 females, D grade 2,064 males and 497 females and E grade 158 males and 6 women.
Science General; A-1 grade 6 women only, A grade 3 males and 64 women, B Grade 46 males and 177 women, C grade 141 males and 202 women, D grade 132 males and 28 women and E grade 7 males only.
Results of 21 candidates of the pre-engineering group were withheld either for want of correct information or on account of use of unfair means. The conduct of examinations for the pre-engineering and Science General examinations was stretched over a period of over 3 months, said a BIE notification.
The number of candidates appearing in pre-engineering group has been recorded to be on decline. Last year a total of 23,161 students had appeared, while in 2006 the number decreased to 21,975.
However, there is an increase of about 22 per cent in the number of candidates who have been placed in A-1 grades in the pre-engineering group.
In the pre-engineering group there were 16 colleges run by government or private concerns, which failed to give any result while another 67 institutions which gave results ranging from 4.35 to 29.63 per cent. Nine of the 214 colleges and higher secondary schools which sent up their candidates for HSC pre-engineering examinations gave 100 per cent results, but interestingly four of them had an enrolment of one student each.
In the science general group, as many as 101 colleges sent 1,953 candidates, including 884 women, for examinations, out of which 24 had to see zero per cent results, while another 25 gave a result below 30 per cent. Seven of the institutions with enrolment ranging from 1 to 10 gave 100 per cent results in the examinations.
