Peshawar BISE to ‘rationalise’ exam centres

PESHAWAR: The authorities of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Peshawar on Friday decided to rationalise the examination centres affiliated with the Board to facilitate the candidates in the upcoming Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations.

A meeting to this effect was held here with Prof Dr Muhammad Shafi Afridi in the chair and was attended by the Secretary Board Bakhtiar Khan, Controller of Examinations Hamidullah Jan Marwat, Assistant Controller Saleem Khan, Assistant Secretary Alamzeb Khan and others.

The participants discussed measures to issue roll number slips for the first time to the candidates belonging to Peshawar, Charsadda, Chitral, Frontier Region Peshawar, Mohmand Agency, and Khyber Agency online.  The roll number slips would also carry the name and number of the laboratory assigned to the concerned candidate.

They also decided that separate marking centre would be established at the Frontier College to involve the female teachers in the marking process.  The meeting was told that online data of teachers for marking, practical and written examinations had been sought from principals, headmasters/mistresses, district education officers and agency education officers. Shafi Afridi said this year the authorities would arrange 600 centres for about 1,45,000 candidates.