BISE announces metric results
Girl students solve their paper at the Abdullah Government College for Women centre at the start of the intermediate exams on Tuesday. Photo: Jalal Qureshi/Express
A total of 115,541 candidates appeared for the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) examination in Rawalpindi, of which 89,184 candidates passed the exam and 26,173 failed with a success rate of 77.2 per cent, said the board in Rawalpindi as it announced matriculation results on Monday.
A total of 58,457 male students and 57,084 female students appeared in the examination. The number of regular candidates was 89,904 and the number of private candidates was 25,637.
The success rate of female students was 83.11 per cent and the success rate of male students was 71.42 per cent while 1,059 candidates were absent.
Rawalpindi Education Board Chairman Adnan Khan and Controller of Examinations Professor Sajid Mehmood Farooqui announced the results. They said that 116,656 candidates applied for the matriculation examination (first annual) in 2023 while 115,541 candidates appeared for the examination.
A total of 9,944 students got an A+ grade, 12,967 students got an A grade, 18,705 got a B, 19,188 students got C, 12,656 students ended with a D and 1,514 students had an E grade.
The chairman congratulated the teachers and parents for the good numbers while also lauding the controller of examinations and his entire team for the ‘hard work that made the board announce its first annual transparent results’.
The chairman added that the results can also be checked on the website of the board. For the convenience of students, the results have been sent to the mobile numbers given on the admission form as well. Meanwhile, the results of regular institutes are uploaded on their portal.
Up next, preparations are underway for the second annual supplementary examination of matriculation. The supplementary exams will start on September 15.
Low-scoring students suffer
All the major public colleges of Rawalpindi City and Cantt have closed the doors of admission to 50,000 students, who passed their matriculation examination with B, C, D and E grades, leaving them at the mercy of private colleges.
Sources said the government colleges have refused to admit students in the first year in the name of merit, forcing them to seek admissions in private colleges with huge monthly fees.
They said students have decided to submit admission forms in three to four colleges simultaneously due to the admission crisis. The cost of the college prospectus has also been raised from Rs700 to Rs1,000.
No new degree college for boys has been established in the City and Cantt areas for the last 50 years.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 1st, 2023.