The girl's students of private Schools had outclassed boys by grabbing two out of the three top positions in the Higher Secondary School Certificate's annual examination of Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Multan 2009. According to results, Ayesha Ikram of Khanewal, Roll No 1758, had topped the overall and pre-medical group by obtaining 1014 marks.

Hafiz Yasir Qamar of New Multan Roll No 30297 with 1011 marks stood second while Laraib Jameel of Multan Roll No 6914 grabbed third position respectively. The position holders were students of Young Scholars Secondary School for girls, Khanewal, Noukhez Public High School, New Multan and Laureates Girls High School Shah Rukn-i-Alam Colony Multan respectively.

The students of Private schools had clinched the first, second and third position in Science group as Hafiz Yasir Qamar Roll No 30297 grabbed first position with 1011 marks, Muhammad Shamraiz Fuqraaz Aslam Roll No 33162 with 1006 marks and Hafiz Muhammad Taimoor Roll No 29436 with 1005 marks obtained third position.

In Humanities Group, Muhammad Zaib Khan Roll No 117814 of Mian Chunnu secured Ist position by obtaining 963 marks, Shama Tahir Roll No 85278 of Government Islamia Girls High School Daulatgate Multan stood second with 961 marks while the third position was shared by Hina Arshad Roll No 92044 of Govt. Girls High School, Chak 86/6 R Sahiwal with 954 marks and Qurrat-ul-ain Khan Roll No 88096 of Nishat Girls High School Multan stood by securing 943 marks.

Controller of Examination Muhammads Asghar Ali Chaudhry briefed the newsmen that total 120313 candidates applied for admission in the examination of them 117260 appeared in the examination and 66058 candidates were declared successful achieving the pass percentage 56.33.

He said that 57635 candidates appeared in science group of them 42117 declared successful with pass percentage of 73.06 and total 59,625 appeared in general group of them 23,941 passed making 40.15 percentage. He said that total 70087 regular candidates appeared in HSC examination of them 45493 candidates in science group of them 37503 were declared successful achieving the pass percentage of 82.44.

Total 24,594 regular candidates appeared in General group of them 12,766 were passed making pass percentage of 71.72. Total 47,173 private candidates appeared in HSC examinations of them 15789 were declared successful making pass percentage of 33.47.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2009