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Two of three top positions go to girls

* Of 47,668 male and female candidates, 23,949 (50.39 percent) were successful; 410 of successful candidates secure A-1 Grade, 1,790 A Grade, 5,972 B Grade, 9,611 C Grade, 5,911 D Grade and 316 E Grade

By Aamir Yasin

RAWALPINDI: Girls clinched two of the top three positions in the Rawalpindi Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education’s (RBISE) Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) examinations whose results were formally declared during a special function at the Divisional Public School on Saturday.

According to the RBISE, 47,668 girls and boys (24,116 as regular candidates and 23,552 as private candidates) sat the examinations, and 23,949 of them (50.39 percent) remained successful. A pass percentage of 53.1 percent was reported in girls and that of 46.42 percent in boys. The results of 140 candidates have been withheld for using unfair means in the examinations.

The results showed that of the successful candidates, 410 secured A-1 grade, 1,790 A Grade, 5,972 B Grade, 9,611 C Grade, 5,911 D Grade and 316 E Grade.

Provincial Minister for Religious Affairs and Auqaf Ehsanuddin Qureshi distributed medals among the top position holders of the examinations.

According to the results, in Pre-Medical Group for boys, Hina Khan, of Government College for Women, Satellite Town, Rawalpindi bagged first position by scoring 1,003 marks out of 1,100. She was followed by Shahr Bano, of Punjab College of Information Technology for Girls, Satellite Town, Rawalpindi, who secured 999 marks. Ahmad Abdullah Mehmood, of Cadet College, Hassan Abdal got third position by scoring 997 marks.

In Pre-Engineering Group for boys, Ahmad Abdullah Mahmood, of Cadet College, Hassan Abdal stood first with 997 marks; Moin Ahmed, of Punjab College of Information Technology, Satellite Town, Rawalpindi second with 980 marks, and Farhan Ahmed, of Cadet College, Hassan Abdal with 979 marks.

In Pre-Engineering Group for girls, Aattiqa Anwar, of Punjab College of Information Technology, Satellite Town, Rawalpindi clinched the first position by securing 984 marks. Maeira Imtiaz and Iqra Shakeel, of the same college, stood second and third with 970 and 962 marks respectively.

In Pre-Medical Group for boys, Aziz Ahmad Chattha, of Cadet College, Hassan Abdal was the topper with 996 marks, followed by Saqlain Saleem, of the same college, who bagged 995 marks. The third position went to Asad Faruqi, of Punjab College of Information Technology, Satellite Town, who secured 994 marks.

In Pre-Medical Group for girls, Hina Khan, of Government College for Women, Satellite Town, Rawalpindi bagged first position by obtaining 1,003, while Shahr Bano, of Punjab College of Information Technology for Girls, Satellite Town got second position by securing 999 marks. Tehrim Amjad, of Punjab College of Information Technology for Girls, Satellite Town and Ambreen Tariq shared the third position by scoring 995 marks each.

In General Science Group for boys, Wasim Zarin Khan, of Indus College of Commerce for Boys, Satellite Town bagged first position by securing 958 marks; Hassan Shehzad, of Punjab College of Information Technology, Satellite Town second with 947 marks, and Dawar Zaman, of Punjab College of Information Technology, Satellite Town third with 945 marks.

In General Science Group for girls, Rabia Bashir, of Government College for Women, Chakwal bagged first position by scoring 954 marks; Shameen Yousaf, of Government College for Women, Satellite Town, Rawalpindi second by securing 949 marks, and Mehvish Naz, of Community Model Girls Higher Secondary School, Khaur, Attock third by obtaining 921 marks.

In Humanities Group for boys, Sudheer Ahmad, a private candidate from Rawalpindi, stood first with 852 marks. He was followed by Arshad Mehmood, of Madrassa Darul Mohiul Islam, Walyatabad, Kallar Syedan, and Zaheer Abbas, of Mumtaz Foundation Education Complex Higher Secondary School for Boys, Mangwal, Chakwal, who shared second position by securing 851 marks each. Muhammad Amir, a private candidate from Jhelum, was third position holder with 847 marks.

In Humanities Group for girls, Nimra Khalid, of Punjab College of Information Technology, Satellite Town bagged first position by scoring 918 marks; Aamra Izzat, a private candidate from Dina, Jhelum, second by securing 914 marks, and Ramsha Sohail, of Punjab College of Information Technology, Satellite Town, third by bagging 912 marks.

In Commerce Group for boys, Umer Farooq, of MA Jinnah College of Commerce and Computer Sciences, Jhelum topped the examination by securing 960 marks. Hassan Tahir, of Punjab College of Information Technology, Satellite Town, stood second by securing 943 marks, while Muhammad Usman, of Indus College of Commerce, Satellite Town, Rawalpindi, remained third position holder with 931 marks.