Governor concerned over ‘exceptionally high’ fail percentage in Inter results

Sindh Governor Kamran Khan Tessori has expressed concern over the failure of up to 66 per cent of candidates in Karachi who appeared in the last Higher Secondary School Certificate (Intermediate) examinations 2024.

The governor spoke to media persons as he visited the office of the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) on Monday. He met the Karachi commissioner who is holding the additional charge of the BIEK chairman and discussed the issue with him.

The governor said that an exceptionally large number of the candidates failing in the annual Intermediate examinations had worried him and compelled him to visit the BIEK office. He said he would not tolerate any injustice to the Karachi-based students and he stood with every oppressed inhabitant of the province.

He told the media that the Karachi commissioner had improved the affairs of the BIEK. He announced that for random verification of the Intermediate exam results, answer scripts of 10 candidates would be re-examined who had earlier obtained 80 per cent orhigher marks in the Secondary School Certificate (matriculation) examinations. He said the scrutiny of the results of HSSC exams would soon be completed, and its results would be shared with the concerned candidates and parents. To a question, he said that so far only 769 candidates had applied for scrutiny of their exam results. Tessori said he would be ready to bear the scrutiny fee expense of the concerned candidates who could not pay the same fee.