Sindh inter students to get additional marks

KARACHI: Caretaker Chief Minister of Sindh Justice Maqbool Baqar (Retd) has directed the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) to give the students of intermediate additional marks in their exams.

The directives come after a fact-finding committee, formed to investigate Intermediate students’ low marks, submitted its report.

As per the directions, the students will be given 15 marks in Mathematics, 12 marks each in Economics, Physics, and Chemistry, and six marks each in Botany and Zoology.

The Sindh CM also approved the recommendation of the committee regarding the removal of the IT Sector’s Muhammad Saheer from his post.

On January 23, the BIEK released the results for Part-I (first year) of the examination, revealing a concerning decline in the students’ performance.

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The statistics indicated that 80% of candidates failed in Arts (Regular), 72% failed in Arts (Private) and 63% failed in Commerce (Private) groups.

Earlier in the results released, only 36.51% of candidates were successful in Pre-Medical, 34.79% in Pre-Engineering and 38.69% in Computers Science groups.

Most students who passed their matriculation exams with lower marks faced potential challenges in securing admissions to professional universities and colleges, given that admissions are typically based on Inter Part-I marks.