KARACHI: Education boards discuss grace marks proposal
By Hasan Mansoor
KARACHI, June 30: Top officials of the education boards in Karachi attending the meeting of Sindh Boards’ Committees discussed the governor’s proposal regarding award of two per cent grace marks in the secondary and higher secondary education examinations.
Sources in the Board of Secondary Education Karachi and the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi said their chairman attended the meeting with the governor’s proposal on the agenda on Saturday. Similar proposals, they said, were also being forwarded by the education boards of Hyderabad, Larkana, Sukkur and Mirpurkhas in the meeting which was in progress till late Saturday evening.
The BIEK officials told Dawn that they had formulated the proposal keeping in view the post-rain and post-May 12 scenario that created the worst law and order situation in Karachi.
“The governor had given verbal directive for addition of two per cent grace marks to the candidates appearing in school and college exams because of rains and electricity problems and we have put it in our proposal on the top,” said an official in the BIEK.
However, he said the board also kept in view the post-May 12 law and order situation that affected the school exams.
Other boards, including the BSEK, are informally agreed on the grace marks proposal and their officials confided to Dawn that a formal decision was forthcoming in the Saturday’s meeting.
