Girls secure top positions in SSC-II exams
HamariWeb | Jul 13, 2016
The Federal Board of
Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE) announced the matriculation
results on Tuesday, with the top positions being secured by girls.
The top three positions were secured by students of various educational
institutions being run by the armed forces while students of Army Public
Schools and Fauji Foundation in various cities bagged the first six
positions.
A total of 82,894 students appeared in the exam of which 65,890 passed.
The pass percentage was recorded at 79.49pc with a 3.38 GPA. The results
showed that the GPA and pass percentage of girl students was higher than
that of boys.
Manal Aamir from Army Public School and College for Girls, Peshawar
Cantt, secured the first position with 1,032 marks from a total of 1,050
marks.
Two students, Urooj Fatima from Army Public School and College Hyderabad
Cantt and Aiman Gul from HITEC School and College for Girls Taxila Cantt,
came second wth 1,031 marks.
Three students from Army Public School and College for Girls in Lahore
and Multan bagged the third position with 1,030 marks. These students
are Areesha Ehsan, Hifza Saeed and Areej Musharraf.
In the humanities group, the three positions went to students of the
Fauji Foundation College for Girls in New Lalazar, Rawalpindi Cantt.
Areej and Barira Sajjad, who are twin sisters, secured the first and
second positions with 985 and 982 marks while Rabia Imran came third
with 977 marks. The twin sisters said the credit for their success goes
to their teachers who emphasised on concept clearing and creative
writing.
FBISE Chairman Dr Ikram Ali Malik said the trends in the results were
the same as that seen in the last few years and that the pass percentage
was gradually improving.
Minister of State for Federal Education and Professional Training
Balighur Rehman was the chief guest at the ceremony.
The minister said FBISE was one of the best education boards of Pakistan
according to many international surveys and that one should feel
privileged to appear in an exam of this board.
“A better board system, better exam settings and better exam checking
systems lead to a better education system and we should be focusing on
improving the education system in Pakistan,” he said.
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