ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE) on Monday promoted students into the 11th grade on the basis of their ninth grade results after their 10th grade examinations were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The passing percentage was 91.26pc for these results, with close competition in the science group in which the first and second positions were shared by two students eachand the third was shared by 11 students.

The FBISE said that 85,151 students passed out of the 93,304 enrolled in the 2020 Secondary School Certificate (SSC) annual examinations, which could not be conducted fully due to the coronavirus pandemic. The partially conduct exams were later cancelled by the federal government.

The results were prepared under the government’s promotions policy, with students promoted from grade 10 to grade 11 on the basis of their ninth grade results along with additional 3pc marks.

The FBISE also granted marks for practicals under a formula in which 50pc marks were given to all students and the remaining 50pc were determined by a student’s performance in ninth grade theory subjects.

The results were announced at an event held at the FBISE, which was attended by Parliamentary Secretary for Education Wajiha Akram, who was briefed on the results by FBISE Chairman Rao Atiq Ahmed.

First position in science was shared by two students - Khunsha Nisha Yaqoob Malik from the Islamabad College for Girls F-6/2 and Menahil Iman from the Army Public School and College for Girls, Range Road, Westridge III in Rawalpindi Cantt - who received 1,097 marks each.

Faheem Abbas from the Garrison Cadet College in Kohat and Zartasha Abbasi from the Garrison Academy in Kharian Cantt shared second position with 1,096 marks each.

However, 11 students shared third position, with 1,095 marks each. The students are Qayyum Ahmed from the Garrison Boys High School in Lahore Cantt, Mohammad Usman Farooq from the Army Public School and College Boys, Ordnance Road in Rawalpindi Cantt, Abdullah Shahid from the HITEC School and College for Boys in Taxila Cantt, Ubaid Khan from the Garrison Cadet College, Jalal Khan from the Cadet College Wana in the South Waziristan Agency, Ifraa Anjum from the Army Public School and College for Girls in Rawalpindi Cantt, Masabeh Minhas from the D.H.A. Senior School for Girls in Lahore Cantt, Ayesha Haral from the Army Public School, Mahfooz Shaheed Garrison in Lahore Cantt, Khadija Tul Zahra from the Garrison Academy for Girls in Lahore Cantt, Zainab Naqib from the HITEC School and College for Girls in Taxila Cantt and Hoorain Kishwar from the Army Public School and College for Girls, The Mall in Peshawar Cantt.

In the humanities group, Ayesha Ali from the D.H.A. Senior School for Girls, Phase V, D.H.A in Lahore Cantt, held the first position with 1,043 marks, followed by Mohammad Haris Muavia from the Institute of Islamic Sciences, Satra Meel in Islamabad with 1,037 marks and Zakaria Basharat, also from the Institute of Islamic Sciences, Satra Meel, who held third position, securing 1,035 marks.

Published in Dawn, July 21st, 2020