45,000 students get AS, A Level results today

More than 45,000 students in Pakistan will receive their AS & A Level results today (Thursday), with Cambridge IGCSE and O Level results due out next week, said the Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) in a statement shared a day earlier.

The results are from the June 2023 exam series to over half a million students worldwide, including over 100,000 students in Pakistan combined for IGCSE, O Level and International AS & A Level, it added.

In total, more than 118,000 entries were made for Cambridge International AS & A Level in the June 2023 series in Pakistan, a rise of 10 per cent since June last year. The most popular subjects were Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry, it added.

The statement added that the students whose exams were cancelled in May due to social unrest in the country were able to continue their education without interruption. “Cambridge has well-established processes for awarding results to candidates who are unable to take an exam component in such circumstances. The grades for Cambridge International A Level History and Mathematics, for which exams were rescheduled due to the disruption, were also released today,” it added.

This year saw Cambridge International’s largest exam series to date, with 1.7 million entries for Cambridge exams across 5,600 schools in 147 countries for all qualifications combined, it said.

“Marked with a volatile political landscape in the country, resulting in a three-day exam cancellation, this exam series epitomised resilience,” said Uzma Yousuf, who is the CAIE director in Pakistan.

More than 750 schools across Pakistan offer Cambridge programmes and qualifications to their students.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 10^th, 2023.