KARACHI, May 3: Admit cards pertaining to HSC Science and Commerce groups’ regular examinations would be issued to candidates at colleges and higher secondary schools from May 10, it was learnt officially.

A Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) official said on Tuesday that admits cards would be issued to representatives of education institutions concerned latest by May 9, while students could receive their cards from colleges after the said date.

About 140,000 candidates, including 40,000 those of the Commerce group (regular and private), are likely to take examinations commencing from May 17. Examinations of Science (Pre-Engineering, Pre-Medical, Science General and Home Economics) would be conducted in the morning shift from 9am to 12noon, while Commerce examinations would be held from 2pm to 5pm.

The assistant controller, Ishaq Mamji, said that admit cards of private candidates of the Commerce group, had already been dispatched.

The science group papers would be held as following:

May 17-English-II, 18-English I, 19-Chemistry II/Statistics II, 20-Islamiat, 21-Economics I, 23-Urdu II, 24-Chemistry I (fresh)/ Statistics I (fresh and failures), 25-Zoology II/Economics II, 26-Computer Science I/Botany-I, 27-Pakistan Studies, 28-Urdu I, 30-Computer Science II/Botany II, 31-Chemistry I (failures), June 1-Physics II, 2-Mathematics I (failures)/Zoology I (old and new), 4-Physics I (fresh), 6-Physics I (failures), 7-Mathemtics II and 8-Mathemtics I (fresh).