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RAWALPINDI: Boys have clinched all the top three positions in the science group in Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Annual Examination 2019. The results are due to be formally announced during a ceremony on Monday morning.
However, fewer girls failed the exams than boys with an overall pass percentage of 75.8 per cent.
According to official result documents from the Rawalpindi Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (RBISE), Waqas Ahmed of the Hassan Abdal Cadet College topped the overall examinations by obtaining 1,089 marks.
The second and third positions were shared by two students of the same college, Abdullah Zafar and Shayan Ahmed who both secured 1,086 marks each.
Khushal Khan and Haq Nawaz Khan of the Hassan Abdal Cadet College were third with 1,083 marks each.
The top position holders all belonged to the science group.
Fatima Nasir Abbasi of Siddeeq Public School (Girls) in Satellite Town area of Rawalpindi and Eisha Batool from the Chakwal Public School For Girls topped the science group amongst girls by securing 1,079 marks each, far behind Ahmed’s total of 1,089 marks.
However, girls outshined boys in the Arts group while the positions were determined by a margin of three marks only.
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Esha Tariq from the Grammar Public School for Girls in Rawalpindi clinched the first position with 1,009 marks. The second and third positions were secured by Alishba Habib and Eman Riffat of the Saeela Government Girls High School in Jhelum with 1,006 and 1,001 marks respectively.
As many as 121,347 students appeared in the examinations, of which 91,987 have been declared as passed and 28,026 as failed with a pass percentage of 75.8 per cent.
Some 11,260 students obtained A-1 grade, while 1,549 students secured A-grade, 23,833 B-grade, 27,334 C-grade, 13,542 D-grade and 469 E-grade.
The overall number of boys who passed the exams are 45,900, while 46,087 girls passed the exam.
The pass percentage amongst boys and girls was 70.76 per cent and 83.32 per cent respectively.
New colleges for Pindi
To solve the issue of insufficient seats for students aspiring for higher education, the provincial government has given final approval for constructing three new colleges in the garrison city. The colleges will cost a total of Rs210 million to build.
Under the scheme, the Saddar Degree College, whose construction was halted in 2008, will be completed and the college will be made operational by 2020.
Moreover, two plots measuring five kanals and three kanals respectively have been acquired for the construction of degree colleges in Rahimabad and Dhok Dalal respectively.
Both colleges are expected to be built at a cost of Rs70 million each. These two colleges are expected to be built over a period of two years.
PMDC crackdown
The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) is all set to launch a nationwide crackdown against the mushroom growth of medical colleges.
The council’s inspection teams will visit the medical colleges across the country and check what categories are awarded to them. The team will check their educational facilities in accordance with the number of students enrolled in them.
Those colleges which do not fulfil the criteria would be shut down while others, providing comparatively fewer facilities, will be asked to slash the number of students they have until they can improve their facilities.
The teams will also visit private and public hospitals to inspect facilities being provided in different departments, medical equipment, number of patients checked every day, number of operations etc.
After the crackdown, the council will develop a new policy for the registration of new medical colleges.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 15th, 2019.
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