Matric and Intermediate board: ‘Exams can now be completed in 4 years instead of 3’

The decision is to be implemented with immediate effect.

KARACHI:

Students can now complete their Matric and Intermediate board exams in four years instead of three, according to a decision taken by the Inter Board Committee of Chairmen (IBCC).

According to a statement issued on Sunday, the decision was approved unanimously during a committee meeting that now gives a student an extra year to sit the number of exams required to complete their secondary school or higher secondary school certificate.

The decision will be implemented immediately, according to the statement. Therefore, those students sitting their exams for the third time have been given one more chance to make up for the exam they have either missed or failed during the academic year 2011.

Along with the Sindh Education Board, the rest of the provinces will follow the same procedure. Earlier, the IBCC had suggested this change but a decision could not be taken as a representative of the Punjab education board was absent.

During the meeting, participants discussed making a separate category of students who could be granted admission to an MBBS programme without sitting the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council’s exam. However this choice was rejected.

The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi chairperson, Professor Anwar Ahmedzai, said that a letter will be written to the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council, urging them not to grant admission to such students as it is against the rules and regulations of the IBCC.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 27^th, 2011.