KARACHI: Intermediate humanities results announced: Girls clinch top positions
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Oct 30: The Board of Intermediate Education on Monday declared results of HSC Part-II (Humanities) Annual Examinations 2006 of regular and special candidates separately.
Among regular students, the top three positions were clinched by female students of two private colleges. The overall percentage of successful candidates in the regular group remained 48.74.
Among special candidates sent by three privately run institutions, two boys and a girl secured top positions in the merit list of humanities special group examination. The overall pass percentage in the group came as 96.05.
The BIE held a ceremony for the announcement of results which was also attended by position holders and their parents and teachers. BIE Chairman Prof Iftikhar H. Zaidi presided over the ceremony.
According to result gazette released to media in the evening, the performance of humanities regular students degraded as the pass percentage in the previous years was higher than 48.74. In 2005 annual exams, the pass percentage was 52.54, which was 6.36 per cent higher as compared to 2004 results.
As far as award of grades to the candidates was concerned it was again a dismal performance as none of the candidates could be placed in A-1 grade. Last year, after a gap of some years, a girl had been able to achieve A-1 grade in the exam.
In all 15,551 regular students, including 13,877 girls, from 186 government and private colleges appeared in the exams. Of the total appeared, 7,579 students, including 7,148 girls, cleared the exams.
Saira Bano, roll no 166167, of Zubair Public Girls Higher Secondary School, bagged first position, by securing 850 out of 1100 marks. Second and third positions went to Mahjabeen Aslam, roll no 159964, and Sadaf Anver Jaffery, roll no 159931, both from DA Degree College for Women, who got 849 and 838 marks respectively.
The gender wise breakdown of successful candidates in the Humanities (regular) examinations remained as follows:
Female: A-grade 59, B-grade 651, C-grade 2,492, D-grade 3,393 and E-grade 553. The board withheld the results of three candidates for their alleged involvement in unfair means during the exams.
Among the special candidates, the first two positions were clinched by the students of Idarieu College for Deaf and Blind. Mohammad Faizan, roll no 152203, secured first position by getting 992 out of 1100 marks, while Mohammad Masroor Khan, roll no 152204, got second position by securing 983 marks.
Gulnaz Khan, roll no 167754, of Absa Higher Secondary School for Deaf got third position by securing 969 marks. As many as 76 candidates took the exam, out of which 73 were declared pass.
The chairman of the board announced cash prizes for top three position holders among special candidates. He said that after meeting all formalities, the board will hand over Rs5,000, Rs3,000 and Rs2,000 to the first, second and third position holders respectively.
The gender-wise breakdown of successful candidates in special group remained as follows:
