LAHORE: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education on Monday announced the top position holders in intermediate results. The result for remaining candidates will be announced on Tuesday (today).

The boys clinched the first three positions with Muhammad Umar securing 1,060 marks, Menaam Farooq 1,059 and Muhammad Umar Mukhtar 1,052. They belong to the Punjab Group of Colleges.

Board chairman Ismail Chaudhry announced the names of the position holders at a press conference.

Pre Engineering (Boys): Muhammad Umer got first position with 1,060 marks followed by Muhammad Tayyab Khan 1049 and Ali Hamza 1042 second and third, respectively. They are also from Punjab college.

Pre Engineering (Girls): Faheen Asif got first position with 1,047 marks, Mahnoor Asad second with 1,042 and and Inza Naeem third with 1,039 marks. They also belong to the Punjab college.

Pre Medical (Boys): Minam Farooq of the Punjab College secured first position with 1,059 marks, Muhammad Umar Mukhtar also of the Punjab College second with 1,052 marks and Omar Naeem of the Government College University third with 1,045 marks.

Pre Medical (Girls): Unsa Miraj of the Punjab College got first position with 1,049 marks, Arfa Zahid of Kinnaird College second with 1,044 and Fatima Shafiq of the Government College for Women, Township, third with 1,042 marks.

In Humanities group (Boys): Muhammad Naqeeb of the College of Shariah and Islamic Sciences secured first position with 992 marks, Muhammad Hamza of the Oxford International College second with 977 and Salman Ahmed of the FC College third with 970 marks.

Humanities group (Girls): Sawera Liaquat of the Government College for Women, Sangla Hill, got first position with 993 marks, Saliha Junaid of the Punjab College with 977 and private candidate Zara Tasneem third with 964 marks.

Some 160,000 candidates appeared in the intermediate exams.

In Sahiwal, Umer Yasin of Sufa Educational Complex, Higher Secondary School, Okara, and Ms Aqsa, of the Punjab College, Sahiwal, bagged first position by getting 1042 marks.

Ms Ghazala of the Punjab College, Okara, got second position by securing 1040 marks while the third position was shared by Himayyal Anwar, DPS, Depalpur, and Muhammad Ahsan, DPS, Okara, by bagging 1039 marks.

According to the board, in all 37,390 students appeared in the examination out of whom 23,335 were declared successful with a pass percentage of 62.41.

In Sargodha, Muneeba Amin of KCP Higher Secondary Girls High School, Girot Road, Jauharabad, stood first with 1,042 marks, Muhammad Safiullah of the Punjab College, Sargodha, second with 1,038 marks and Aysha Naufal stood third with 1,037 marks.

Published in Dawn, September 12th, 2017