Girls outshine boys in SSC Science
KARACHI, July 31:
Girls outshone boys in the SSC-II (Science) annual examination 2007 results,
which were announced by the Board of Secondary Education, Karachi (BSEK) on
Tuesday.
Sana Pasha, daughter of Anwar Pasha, a student of Falcon House Grammar
School, North Karachi, secured 809 out of 850 marks with a staggering 95.18
percentage and clinched the top position among the total of 101,519
candidates who had appeared in the examinations concluded in early July.
Tooba Anwar, daughter of Mohammad Anwar, of Lady Bird Grammar School, North
Nazimabad, with 793 marks bagged the second position. She was followed by
three candidates sharing the third position: Mohammad Hasan Khan, son of
Shujaatullah Khan, of Chiniot Islamia Public School; Ashba Mushtaque,
daughter of Mushtaque Ahmed, of the Karachi Public School; and Nisha Usmani,
daughter of Qaiser Taslim Usmani, of White House Grammar School. They all
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According to the statistics released by the BSEK, a total of 102,551
candidates were registered for the exams and 98 per cent of the candidates
appeared in the exams out of which 79,996 were declared successful.
As many as 10,202 candidates secured A-1 grade,
while 17,594 got A-grade; 20,640 bracketed in B-grade; 20,015 got C-grade;
10,722 secured D-grade and 657 were placed in E-grade. The overall pass
percentage remained 78.8.
Dawn received various complaints from the candidates belonging to different
schools of the city accusing the BSEK officials of showing complacency in
compiling the results, due to which a significant number of the candidates were
shown absent in some papers although they had duly attended and taken the
examinations.
A number of candidates complained of such irregularity mostly in mathematics
paper. When contacted, a senior board official said that it might be a ‘human
error’ on the part of the examiners.
“Anyone who has such complaints should visit the Board office to get it checked
out,” he said.
Besides, the BSEK had added two per cent grace marks to the total marks obtained
by each candidate. Thus, it has improved the overall percentage.
All other boards of Sindh, including the BIEK, are adding marks to the total
marks obtained in each paper. As a token of concession, the Sindh governor had
ordered all the provincial educational boards to add two per cent grace marks to
the marks obtained by all the candidates who could not properly prepare for
their exams due to rains and prolonged electricity failures.
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