First Year Results: Protest over inaccuracies

FAISALABAD:

After Lahore, Intermediate Part-I students in Faisalabad staged a demonstration on Wednesday to protest inaccuracies in the results announced on Monday by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE).

More than 50 students surrounded the board’s office, chanting slogans against BISE officials. They demanded that the board remove BISE remove errors in the result.

Naveed Anjum, a student from Gulfishan Colony, told The Express Tribune that though he had taken all exams, he had been marked absent in an exam. Naghma Shabbir said she had only been awarded 10 marks in the English exam. “I thought my exam went really well,” she said, adding there must have been a mistake in marking the paper. Malik Zafar Iqbal, the controller (examinations) said the board would look into the complaints. “There is always a chance of errors,” he said. Mistakes might have been made while the result was being compiled and uploaded, said Iqbal.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 4^th, 2012.