Supplementary exams: Shaikh Zayed College secures 100 per cent result

313 of the 407 students pass the exams throughout the province.


Ali Usman June 02, 2011

LAHORE:


The Shaikh Zayed Medical College, Rahim Yar Khan, has topped the list of University of Health Sciences final professional MBBS Supplementary Examination of 2010 announced last Saturday.


All of its 26 students who appeared in the supplementary exam passed it. Following the SZMC is the Wah Medical College, Wah Cantt.

The Wah Medical College has a pass percentage of 95 percent – 19 of its 20 students cleared the supplementary exams.

The Fatima Memorial Hospital College for Medicine and Dentistry is third in the list.

It has a pass percentage of 88 per cent – 22 of its 25 students passed the exam.

The pass percentage of the Lahore Medical and Dental College Lahore is 85.71 per cent –24 of its 34 students passed; of he Rawalpindi Medical Colleges is 84.78 percent –39 of its 46 students passed; of Nishtar Medical College, Multan, is 84.09 percent – 37 of its 46 students passed; of Quaid-e-Azam Medical College, Bahawalpur, is 82.22 per cent – 37 of 46 passed, result of one student was not announced; of the University Medical College, Faisalabad, is 80 percent – 24 of its 30 students passed; of the Services Institute of Medical Sciences, Lahore, is 70 per cent – 14 of its 21 students passed; of the Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad, is 69.44 per cent – 25 of its 36 students passed.

As many as 407 students appeared in the exam throughout the province. 313 passed, 81 failed and result of 13 was not announced.

The overall pass percentage was 79.44 per cent.

Curious case of AIMC

The Allama Iqbal Medical College (AIMC) Lahore which had the highest cut-off percentage in the province for admission to its MBBS programme in 2010 has the lowest pass percentage of the participating institutions in the result of the final professional MBBS Supplementary Examination of 2010.

The AIMC pass percentage in the annual examination had also been well below the overall pass percentage.

According to the result announced by the University of Health Sciences on Saturday, 28 of the 77 AIMC students who took the supplementary examination in 2010 failed – a pass percentage of 62.16 per cent. Of the 299 AIMC students who had appeared in the final professional MBBS annual examination of 2010, 72 had failed. The AIMC pass percentage for the examination thus was 75.43 per cent – five percentage points lower than the overall passing rate of 80.35 per cent as 2,023 students in the province had appeared in the annual examination in 2010. 1,554 had passed.

At 85.3 per cent, the cut-off percentage for admission to the AIMC in 2010 was the highest in the province.

Talking to The Express Tribune, AIMC principal Prof Javed Akram expressed satisfaction with the result.  He said the statistics were skewed by a group of students who had been taking and failing supplementary examinations for several years. He said the college had arranged special classes for these students but it had not helped. Prof Akram said apparently some of them had started businesses and others were working part-time.  An AIMC professor speaking on condition of anonymity said that of late the focus at college had shifted towards extra-curricular activities to the detriment of academics.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 2nd, 2011.

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