LAHORE - The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) announced the Matric examination results yesterday.
A grand ceremony was organised at Alhamra in honour of position winner students. Education minister Rana Khushnood was chief guest on the occasion.
The prizes, cash awards and merit certificates were distributed among the position holder students of Secondary School Certificate (Annual) Examination, 2016.
BISE Lahore Chairman Dr Muhammad Nasrullah Virk welcomed the honourable guests and announced the results of above said examination.
According to results, 214711 candidates appeared in the SSC (Annual) Examination, 2016 in which 153478 candidates declared successful thus the pass percentage remained 71.48 percent. As per details, 102780 out of 131161 candidates passed in science group, hence the pass percentage remained 78.36% while the 50698 out of 83550 candidates remained successful in Humanities Group and the pass percentage was 60.68.
The education minister distributed the medals and merit certificates among the position holders. Position Holders were awarded with Gold, Silver and Browns Medals along with Rs20,000, Rs15,000 and Rs10,000 respectively. Overall topper Rana Omar Farhan, Roll No 203528, obtained 1087 marks. He is a student of Divisional Public School and Inter College, Model Town, Lahore. He was also awarded with a laptop.
Muhammad Shayan Waheed s/o Waheed Naz got over all second position by securing 1086 marks; and Syed Momin Ali s/o Syed Javaid Shoukat and Hussnain Mushtaq s/o Mushtaq Ahmed, both students of DPS Model Town, secured 1085 marks and stood overall third.
These students also got 1st, 2nd and 3rd positions in Science Group among Boys.
In the category of Science Group (Girls), Semil Saleem d/o Muhammad Saleem, a student of Punjab Girls High School, Johar Town, Lahore, got 1st position by securing 1083 marks. Rimsha Tahir d/o Ghulam Nabi Tahir, DPS Model Town, Lahore, secured 1082 marks and secured second position while Sajal Tariq d/o Muhammad Tariq, Jinnah Grammar Secondary School, Ghulam Hussain Park, Shad Bagh Lahore, secured 1079 marks and stood third.
In Arts Group (Girls), Iqra Yaseen d/o Muhammad Yaseen, student of Allama Iqbal High School for Girls, Kasur, got 1st position by securing 1067 marks; Ayesha Khalid d/o Khalid Mahmood, a student of Society Public Girls High School, Mughalpura, obtained 2nd position by securing 1055 marks; and Areej Waseem d/o Waseem Zafar, Farooqi Girls High School Karim Park, also got 2nd position with 1055 marks; and Uzma Waris d/o Waris Masih, private student, stood third by securing 1045 marks.
In Arts Group (Boys), Sabir Ali s/o Muhammad Tufail, student of Pakistan Model High School, Kasur, got 1st position by securing 1034 marks; Muhammad Shahzad s/o Muhammad Iqbal, Allied School, Al-Miraj Campus for Boys, Shadman, obtained 2nd position by securing 1006 marks; and Muhammad Usman s/o Khalid Zahoor, Allam Iqbal Public High School, Kasur; and Allah Ditta s/o Muhammad Aslam, Govt. Public High School Nain Sukh, stood third by securing 994 marks.