Some 18 students were caught cheating on the first day of intermediate exams
here on Tuesday.
The exams for Urdu (compulsory) for pre-medical and pre-engineering were held in
the morning in some 108 examination centres across the city.
The English (compulsory) paper was held in the afternoon at 87 centres.
Earlier, the BIEK issued a list of this year’s 13 most sensitive examination
centres. They are Government Degree Boys College, New Karachi; Government Degree
Boys College, 7/D-2, North Karachi; Government Premier Boys College No 1,
Block-H, North Nazimabad; Jinnah Government College, Nazimabad; Government
College for Men, Nazimabad; Aisha Bawany Government Science College No 1,
Bizertta Lines; CMS Government Boys Secondary School, Nishtar Road; Government
Degree Science and Commerce College, Block-7, Gulshan-i-Iqbal; Government Degree
Boys College, Gulistan-i-Jauhar; Government National College, Shaheed-i-Millat
Road; PECHS Government Degree Science College, Kashmir Road; Government Inter
Boys Science College, 36-B Landhi; and Government Degree Boys College, Korangi 2
½.
On the first day, the super vigilance team headed by BIEK chairman Prof Anwar
Ahmed Zai with some other vigilance teams made several surprise visits to
various examination centres. They included Government Degree Boys College, 7/D-2
and Government College for Men, Nazimabad, both located in the sensitive spots.
The cases of the students caught cheating have been forwarded to the unfair
means committee.
Controller of Examinations Imran Chishti said that having five different
versions of the question paper was successful in curbing cheating to some
extent.