HYDERABAD, July 23: With the announcement of secondary school certificate (SSC) Part-II (class-X) annual examination 2005 results by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Hyderabad, on Saturday, it has been once again proved beyond any doubt that the standard of education in private schools is far better than government ones.

According to the result sheet, five positions of six have gone to students of private schools while only one position was won by a government high school.

Two students of the Cadet College Petaro among the boy students obtained positions.

Among the girl students all the three positions have gone to the Falcon House Grammar High School Hyderabad with one girl of The City High School sharing the third position with the Falcon student.

Among the boy students of the science group, Shafi Mohammad, son of Mohammad Usman, (seat no.125732) of the Government (P) High School Sakrand, Nawabshah district, secured the first position by obtaining 788 marks.

The second position was shared by Muneer, son of Gul Mohammad, (seat no.131063) of the Cadet College Petaro and Nabeel Hashmi, son of Waseem Hashmi, (seat no.93881) of the Madina Blessing High School Latifabad-2, both of whom obtained 779 marks.

The third position was captured by a student of the Cadet College Petaro, Eshsanullah Soomro, son of Hashim Soomro, (seat no.131044) by securing 776 marks.

The girl students of the science group outclassed their counterparts by securing more marks.

Hanna, daughter of Naeem Khan, (seat no.95977), Ramsha, daughter of Sohail Ahmed Zaki, (seat no.95981) and Amerta, daughter of Dr Sono, (seat no.95974), all of the Falcon House Grammar High School Hyderabad secured the first, the second and the third position by obtaining 799, 798 and 777 marks, respectively.

Anum, daughter of Farooq Ahmed, (seat no.95583) of The City High School Latifabad-2, shared the third position with Amerta by securing 777 marks.

A total number of 36,870 candidates including 13,283 girls appeared in the examination of which 31,392 candidates including 11,462 girls passed the examination.

The result of 135 students 37 of them girls have been withheld by the board for various reasons.

The pass ratio on the whole has been calculated as 85.63 per cent.

In the general group, among the boy students, Karim Gaho, son of Mohammad Uris, (seat no.139859) of the Government High School Oderolal station was declared first with 683 marks while Samuel George, son of George Masih, (seat no.140026) of the Government Hopeful High School Hyderabad stood the second by obtaining 681 marks.

The third position was shared by Imam Ali Zaur, son of Abdullah, (seat no.139569) and Pir Dino, son of Mushtaq Hussain, (seat no.139575) both of the Government High School Pangrio, who obtained 680 marks each.

Among the girl students, Rabia Memon, daughter of Ahmed Khan, (seat no.139688) of the M.G. High School Hala and Geeta Bai, daughter of Manghan Mal, (seat no.139690) of the Government Girls High School Hala secured the first and second positions by obtaining 667 and 657 marks, respectively.

Rehana Solangi, daughter of Khair Mohammad, (seat no.141654) of the Government Girls Higher Secondary School Kotri clinched the third position with 650 marks.

A total number of 2,301 students appeared in the general group of which 1,873 were declared passed while the result of 41 students has been withheld by the board.

The pass ratio on the whole is 82.87 per cent.

The acting chairman of the BISE Hyderabad, Prof Masood Hussain, at a simple but impressive ceremony held at the Hyderabad press club distributed mark certificates among the position holders in the presence of their proud parents.

He expressed satisfaction over results which were 85 per cent.

He said this was made possible due to joint and concerted efforts of the teachers, the students and the parents.

He conceded that the result of private schools was better than the government ones.

The controller of the examinations, Prof Hafeez Soomro, was also present on the occasion.