Girls outshine boys in HSSC Part- II exams : FBISE Position Holders

ISLAMABAD: The girls maintained their record as they outshone the boys in Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) annual examination Part- II, bagging top 15 positions, according to the result announced by Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE) in a ceremony held Friday.

Fatima Khalid of Army Public School and College, Sargodha Cantt, AmnaFarouk of Bahria College, Islamabad and Amna Arshad of Army Public School and College for Girls , Rawalpindi Cantt clinched first, second and third positions in the Pre-Engineering group.

While in Pre-Medical group, Seema Kanwal of Hamza APS and College Rawalpindi secured first, Uzma Shaheen of Punjab College for Information Technology for Women , Sargodha second and Misbah Zeb of Army Public Science College Okara Cantt obtained third position. A single boy Muhammad Abdullah Mahmood of Global College System of Rawalpindi shared third position .

In Science general group, Maria Hamdani of Askaria College , Rawalpndi Cantt , Umm-e-Laila Shigri of Bahria College Islamabad and Sundus Maria of OPF Girls College Islamabad got first, second and third positions respectively.

In Commerce Group, Anab Sundus and Huma Khalid of Pakistan Education Centre, Qatar achieved first and second positions respectively while Nageen Abbas of Punjab College Islamabad obtained third position.

Salma Faiz of Ghazali College for Women Islamabad , Syeda Bint ul Huda Zaidi of F.G College for Women Islamabad and Farwa Batool of F.G College for Women Rawalpindi Cantt got first, second and third positions respectively in Humanities group.

While a boy Muhammad Mohsin Habib of institute of Islamic Sciences Islamabad shared third position.

A total of 46355 regular and private candidates appeared in the exams out of which 35117 students passed and the overall percentage remained 75.76.

The HSSC supplementary examination will commence from October 6 and those who wish to apply for rechecking of the papers may apply within 30 days of declaration of result.

This year, 11 unfair means cases were reported and a judicious procedure has been adopted to tackle these cases.

While addressing the students, Minister for Technical and Vocational Training Riaz Hussain Pirzada , as a chief guest, said nations can never progress without investing in technical and formal education.” History has proved that the nations which neglect education sector always face economic adversity,” he said.

The present government is taking various steps to bring positive changes in education system of the country, he said while hoping that the country will achieve 100 percent literacy rate by the year 2015.

The government is working on developing a policy to give vocational and technical training to the students which will be announced soon, Pirzada said.

The minister urged the private sector to come forward and invest in education sector to reduce the gap between public sector institutes and private ones, raising the standard of education.

He said students and teachers have a very important relationship and students must respect their teachers while teachers should also focus on rendering their services with dedication and honesty.

Chairperson FBISE, Shaheen Khan , on the occasion, said the board started conducting exams in the year 1976 and 988 institutes have got affiliation with FBISE till today.

Among these, 50 are foreign institutes. FBISE is the only board which is certified by ISO, she added.

During her three years tenure in FBISE, 12 exams were conducted and no paper was leaked during the period and not even a single parent or student complained of irrelevant or out of course paper.

FBISE announces result within eight to ten weeks and made such arrangements that no one can acquire fake documents, she said.

A large number of parents , students and official of board attended the ceremony.