Inter exams: Pass percentage jumps to 50 per cent in new results

Over 13,000 more students pass exams, according to re-tallied scores.

LAHORE: Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Lahore re-announced its Intermediate Part-I result after removing errors in presence of Education Minister and other senior officials here on Saturday.

The pass percentage improved by up to 10 per cent as the Lahore Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) announced the re-tallied intermediate part 1 exam results on Saturday.

The results were first announced on October 17, but students protested across the province because of major errors in the tallying of scores. The Punjab government ordered the eights boards in Punjab to check all the results again.

According to the new results, 62,647 of the 124,702 students who sat the intermediate part 1 exams passed. The earlier results showed that 49,435 candidates had passed. The pass percentage has gone from 39.64 per cent to 50.26 per cent in the re-tallied results.

Education Minister Mian Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman said that the other boards in Punjab would announce their revised results within 45 days. He thanked Lahore board officials for working day and night to get the results out.

Lahore BISE Chairman Dr Allah Bakhsh said officials had worked during the Eid holidays as well. He said that the students who wanted to apply for rechecking should contact board officials and submit applications within 15 days. He said that the results of all candidates who sat the exam had been announced and no scores were pending.

Top scores

Muhammad Umer, pre-engineering group, from Government College University (GCU) Lahore scored first position in the exams with 493 marks. Pre-engineering students Najam Tariq, also from GCU Lahore, and Fatima Khurshid from Punjab College for Women, Muslim Town, came second with 485 marks. Farrukh Mushtaq, pre-engineering group, from GCU, Alishba Tahir, pre-engineering group, from Kinnaird College for Women and Ammar Yousuf, humanities group, from Government College for Women Warburton (Nankana Sahib), finished in third.

In the pre-medical group, Zamad Gillani of GCU came first, Abdul Rafay of GCU second and Sarmad Rafiq and Muhammad Burhan Atta of GCU and Ahmar Saleem of Punjab College of Science came third among boys.

Zabreen Tahir from Kinnaird scored first position with 473 marks, Wada Tul Firdous from Falcon Public Higher Secondary School for Girls and Maryam Tahir from Unique Higher Secondary School for Girls came second with 472 marks, while Irfah Nadeem of KC came third with 470 marks in the pre-medical group among girls.

Muhammad Aamir Eyyaz of GCU came first with 474, Rizwan Liaqat and Muhammad Zeeshan of GCU came second with 451 marks, and Abdul Sami of Punjab College and Muhammad Zeeshan from Government Degree College Bhai Pheru came third with 450 marks in the general science group among boys.

Kinnaird College students Fatima Qamar (with 479 marks), Zunaira Ahmad (477) and Arshia Saqib (461) took the top three positions in the general science group among girls.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 20^th, 2011.