MARDAN: Girls have clinched all the overall top three positions in the Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) examinations 2014 conducted by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education ((BISE), Mardan.

The results were announced by assistant controller of examinations of the BISE, Mardan, Farooq Ali Qureshi during a press conference at Mardan Press Club on Tuesday.

Safia Ali and Shafaq Shehzadi of Peace School and College, Nowshera, shared the overall first position by obtaining 986 of the total 1,100 marks while Faiza and Hania Sherwani of the same college secured second and third positions with 982 and 965 marks, respectively.

Mr Qureshi said that a total of 60,899 candidates of both part-I and part-II appeared in the annual examinations 2014, of which 17,989 students in part-I and 20,231 students in part-II were declared successful. The pass percentage was 59.60 and 65.86 in part-I and part-II, respectively.

All the overall top three position-holders were from the pre-medical group.

In the pre-engineering group, Abbas Anwar secured first position with 944 marks, Waleed Abbas got second position with 942 marks and Maaz Ahmad third by getting 939 marks. All the three position-holders belonged to Karnal Sher Khan Cadet College, Swabi.

In general science group, Iqra Saleem of FEF Girls Degree College, Zaida, obtained first position with 909 marks while Mashaal Farooq of Islamia Degree College, Nowshera, remained second with 857 marks and Palwasha Alam of Peace School and College, Nowshera, clinched third position with 854 marks.

Published in Dawn, July 23rd, 2014