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95% students clear matric exams in Hyderabad

Girls clinch top positions, Vijay Kumar of Petaro College secures second position in Science group

Our Correspondent October 11, 2023

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

HYDERABAD:

The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Hyderabad has declared over 95% of students who appeared in the Secondary School Certificate Part II exams as pass.

According to the results, which was announced on Tuesday, some 65,997 students from nine districts of Hyderabad division had appeared in the exam and among them, 62,913 fared through it.

As many as 11,495 secured A-1 Grade, 27,259 A Grade, 17,995 B, 5,677 C and 477 settled for D. The board declared 2,450 students to have failed while the results of 634 others were withheld.

The pass percentage among female students was recorded at 97.42% and among male students at 94.08%.

The first position was clinched by Hira Abid, daughter of Abid Ali Sahito, a student of Country Cambridge High School, Civil Lines Hyderabad. She scored 988 marks (89.82%).

Vijay Kumar of Cadet College Petaro and Suha Zubair of Foundation Public School, Civil Lines Hyderabad, secured the second and third positions respectively, scoring 986 and 985 marks. Interestingly, nine of the top 10 position holders are female students and all of them, except one, belong to the schools in Hyderabad district.

Meanwhile, in the general group 1,196 students took the exams and 1,090 among them were declared pass.

Three students passed with A-1 grade and 191 with B grade. Aijaz Ali of Government High School Jamshoro Colony, Abida Parveen of Government Higher Secondary School Mori Mangar Hyderabad and Muhammad Abid of Government Allama Iqbal High School Latifabad Unit 6, Hyderabad, bagged the top three positions.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 11^th, 2023.