RAWALPINDI, Oct 20: The Rawalpindi Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education on Saturday announced the results of the supplementary examination, 2001, for the secondary school certificate (SSC), showing a pass percentage of 48.31.

According to the board’s controller of examinations, 14,043 candidates appeared in the examinations in September 2001 with 6,785 of them passing the exams and 6,314 failing it.

The results of 921 candidates were withheld due to various discrepancies like the registration of cases against some of them for use of unfair means.

Boys numbered 8,721 in the exams, 3,938 of whom passed, 4,033 failed and 599 had their results withheld. Girl-candidates numbered 5,322, out of whom 2,847 have been declared successful while the remaining failed.

Girls outshone boys with 53.49 per cent of them passing the exams while only 45.15 per cent of the boys could do so.

Only 86 boys and girls appeared as regular candidates in the exams, 11 of whom were declared successful. Thirty of them appeared for the science group, with just seven managing to pass the exams. In the general group, just four of the 56 regular candidates passed the exams.

As many as 2,541 private candidates passed the exams for the science group out of a total of 4,809 — a pass percentage of 52.83 per cent for this category.

A total of 9,158 private candidates appeared for the general subjects, 4,233 of whom, or 46.22 per cent, passed the exams.

The result cards of regular candidates have been dispatched to the heads of their respective institutions while those of private candidates sent at their private addresses.

The candidates who have had their results withheld due to any reason, are directed to get their problems sorted out to make it possible for the board to announce their results.