With results still unavailable, students and parents converge upon BSEK again

Karachi
A week after results for matriculation examinations were announced, hundreds of students for the second time flooded the office of the Board for Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) on Monday, claiming unavailability of results on the official website and gazette issued by the Board’s office.
The Board officials were, however, prepared for the protest this time around; students were called in to check their results and corroborate them with their answer scripts.
According to the Board’s authorities, results of candidates who had failed to pass the examinations were also to be uploaded on the website; however, they were not uploaded until late Thursday night – day the results were announced.
“We are not normally allowed to show answer scripts to students or objections levelled against the wrong roll numbers the students had put in or missing attendance,” stated a Board official.
“In some cases, they appeared at the wrong examination centres.”
He further informed that around 10 schools were yet to send in the results of practical examinations to the BSEK; the delay had affected results of almost 800 students.
The BSEK had issued notices to the schools and also warned them of strict disciplinary action in future, but the current priority was to get them to submit the marks, he added.
The official expressing annoyance over the protest claimed that a majority of protestors were not even students but had come along with them.
“The Board arranged a special display of results for them but they kept coming up with fresh arguments, raising baseless questions, expressing disbelief over their results,” the official stated.