ICT colleges: More than half of students fail BA, BSc part-II exams

QAU VC says addition of courses may have burdened students


Our Correspondent September 19, 2014

ISLAMABAD: Over half of the students of Islamabad Capital Territory colleges have failed in their BA, BSc part-II examinations which were announced on Thursday.

Detailed results were not released by the varsity for the second year since the colleges’ affiliation with Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. Earlier, the colleges were affiliated with Punjab University.

In total, 3,942 students appeared in the examinations but only 1,656 (42 per cent) were declared successful while around 2,286 (57 per cent) flunked in various subjects.

Last year, the pass percentage was 53 per cent which included 1,761 students.

In the B Com group, Saadia Khan of Islamabad Model College for Girls (IMCG), F-10/3 got the first position obtaining 1,070 marks out of 1,500; Sabiha Shaheen of the same institute came second with 1,068 marks while Saqib Ali of Islamabad Postgraduate Commerce College got the third position with 1,062 marks.

In the BSc group, two students, Aneeqa Hussain of IMCG (PG) F-7/2 and Rabia Ali of Islamabad College for Girls (PG) F-6/2, clinched the first position as both obtained 636 marks out of 800.

Maira Ali of IMCG (PG) F-7/4 got the second position with 635 marks. The third position was shared by two students: Hanood Shah of IMCG (PG) G-10/4 and Sidra Ashfaq of IMCG (PG) G-10/4 secured 618 marks.

In BA, Munaza Shafi of IMCG (PG) G-10/4 bagged the first position securing 590 marks out of 800 and Iqra Riaz of the same institute got the second position with 587 marks.

The third position went to two students: Memoona Batool, again of IMCG (PG) G-10/4, and Khadija Arif of IMCG (PG) F-7/4 bagged the third position with 585 marks.

While explaining the reason for the decline in the success rate, QAU Vice-Chancellor Eatizaz Ahmad said last year the courses were mostly that of the University of
Punjab but in the following year 12 new courses were introduced so that might have caused it.

“But we will try to manage this next year as we are keenly working along with the teachers of these colleges,” he concluded.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 19th, 2014.

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