Intermediate commerce results: Private college students bag top three positions

Around 80% students of the Institute of Business Education scored A-1 or A grades.

KARACHI:

Students of private institutions kept last year's trend alive by outperforming their counterparts at the public sector colleges when the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) announced the commerce group results on Thursday. 

Bahria College Karsaz's Momina Khalil came first by scoring 84.82 per cent marks, followed by Sheikh Mustafa of College of Emerging Technologies with 84.64 per cent, while Sehar Aslam of Fatimiyah College secured the third position with 84.36 per cent.

At a ceremony organised to honour the position holders, BIEK Chairperson Prof. Anwar Ahmed Zai said that private and regular candidates who pursue education in commerce at the intermediate level exceed the total number of students in pre-medical and pre-engineering disciplines.

"Despite the massive influx of students, public colleges have failed to facilitate students both in terms of academics and individual attention, necessitating the dire need of self-accountability," he said.

Zai was of the view that the performance of private colleges in the commerce group was improving every year. His assertion seemed accurate given that no public college managed to register itself in the 'hall of fame' for two consecutive years.

"I do not feel we were exceptional. Had the students at public colleges received similar guidance in their intermediate studies, they would have performed in the same manner," said Mustafa, the second position holder.

Result statistics

According to the results announced by the board's examinations controller, Imran Khan Chishti, a total of 35,393 students sat the exam, of which nearly 56 per cent managed to get through. Unlike, the pre-medical and pre-engineering groups, the percentage of boys and girls who sat the exam were not inordinately slanted towards any gender. Around 56 per cent of them were boys, while 44 per cent were girls.

Barely, 77 students managed to score the highest A-1 grade, which is in line with the Intermediate commerce group. Last year, around 80 students passed the exam with A-1 grade. Around four per cent scored A grade and 11 per cent managed grade B.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 5^th, 2013.