24 colleges produce zero percent result in inter pre-medical exams

Karachi
The result gazette issued by the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) on Tuesday for pre-medical examination revealed that 24 colleges or higher secondary schools produced zero percent result while 52 educational institutions scored less than 20 percent. Meanwhile, 30 colleges and higher secondary schools had scored between 20 and 30 percent.
The declared the results of pre-medical group on Monday at a ceremony held in which Sindh chief secretary Muhammad Siddique Memon was the chief guest.
The first five positions were, as usual, clinched by girls while a boy managed to bag the sixth position. According to the gazette issued, 21,142 candidates registered out of whom 20, 855 students appeared and 10, 423 were successful in the exam. The overall pass percentage was 49.98 percent.
Around 4,270 male candidates registered for the exam out of which 4,172 students appeared and 1,452 candidates passed all six papers.
About 16,872 female students registered out of which 16,683 candidates appeared and 8,971 students managed to pass all six papers, with the overall pass percentage being 53.77 percent.
According to the controller of examinations of BIEK, Muhammad Imran Khan Chishti, 59 cases of use of unfair were reported during and after the annual exams. He said papers started on April 28 and ended on May 21, after which practical exams continued till June 25.
As many as 131 male and 959 female candidates bagged A-1 grades, 330 male and 2,329 female students received A grades, 396 male and 2,669 female scored B grade, 356 male and 2,324 female candidates cleared their papers in C grades, 229 male and 682 female students managed to pass with D grades whereas 10 male and eight female had E grade marks in the annual exams.
Chishti said he would like to support students who would like to appear in CSS exams after their graduation, adding that he would do so in his personal capacity.

Position holders
Muhammad Anas Siddiqui of DJ Sindh Government Science College received 981 marks out of total 1,100, securing 89.18 percent marks and sixth position. He was the only young male among other top five position holders.
Karishma Kumari of DA Degree College for Women in Phase VIII clinched overall first position with 999 marks (90.82 percent) while Rimsha Irfan from Sir Syed Government Girls College Nazimabad bagged the second position with 988 marks (89.82 percent).
Hira Iqbal Naviwala of Aga Khan Higher Secondary School bagged the third position with 985 marks, 89.55 percent.
The top six position holders blamed poor service of K-Electric and stated that prolonged electricity failures had disturbed their studying schedule at a number of occasions. All of them have declared Dow University for Health Science as their first choice for a professional college.
They said syllabus could be improved with the help of seasoned educationists and remarked that government colleges needed a lot of more attention from the competent authorities. They also claimed that education standard in the city had been decreasing for various reasons.
Karishma Kumari said it seemed that the Cambridge system of education was way ahead of other educational boards.
Rimsha Irfan received a warm welcome from the chief guest, the chief secretary of Sindh, Muhammad Siddiq Memon, when the guests were informed that her father earned minimum wage and her mother was a government school teacher. She said she had worked hard and getting the second position was a pleasant surprise for her.
Hira Iqbal asked the government and educationists to find out the reasons due to which the country’s education system had failed to deliver results while expressing her interest in teaching as a profession.

Cash reward
The BIEK chairman Muhammad Akhtar Ghori announced cash rewards of Rs50, 000, Rs30, 000 and Rs20, 000 for the first, second and third position holders, respectively. He said that board had delivered the result a month before the deadline of the education steering committee.