Over 60pc Home Economics students clear HSC exams

KARACHI, None of the candidates, including the position holder students, got Grade A-1 in the Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC) Part-II (Class XII) Home Economics group annual examinations-2009, the results, announced by the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) show.

The overall pass percentage is 60.87 per cent.

Of the total 432 candidates who appeared in the exams, 263 were declared passed in different grades.Some 19 students (4.40 per cent) got Grade A, 67 students (15.51 per cent) got Grade B, 106 students (24.54 per cent) got Grade C, 67 students (15.51per cent) got Grade D and, four students (0.93 per cent) got Grade E in the exams.

The Raa’na Liaquat Ali Khan College of Home Economics, being the only college of home economics in the city, bagged all the top three positions in the exams.

Ms Khadija, daughter of Feroz Faizullah (roll no.202152), clinched the first position in the exams by obtaining 942 marks (78.50 per cent) out of the total 1,200 marks.

Ms Maahin Sabir Ali, daughter of Sabir Ali Rehman (roll no.202167), bagged the second position by securing 936 marks (78 per cent) in the exams.

The third position went to Ms Saba Iqbal Advani, daughter of Mohammad Iqbal Advani (roll no.202339). She secured 911 marks (75.92 per cent) in the exams.

Meanwhile, BIEK chairman Prof Anwar Ahmed Zai announced on Thursday that examination results, including those of Intermediate Part-II (Science) Pre-engineering and Pre-medical groups exams-2009, would be announced by mid-August so that candidates seeking admissions to professional medical and engineering colleges could get admissions in time.

Speaking at a ceremony held in honour of the position holder students on the premises of BIEK, the chairman also announced that the new pattern of examinations introduced this year in Class XI exams would be applied next year also to Class XII exams.

Under the new pattern of exams, theory papers would carry 20 per cent objectivetype questions, 50 per cent short-answer questions and 30 per cent descriptive-answer questions, he said.

He said that practical exams would be of 15 marks instead of 25 marks while the theory papers, involving practical, would be of 85 marks as against the previous 75 marks.