ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: The girl students of the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad have secured most of the top positions in the Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) Part-II Annual Examination 2002 held under the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE).

According to the results announced by the FBISE here on Saturday, this year’s overall pass percentage was 72.42 compared to last year’s 68 per cent.

Sara Ijaz Gillani of the Federal Government College for Women, F-7/2 topped the pre-medical group as well as the board by obtaining 954 marks.

Nadia Parveen of Bahria College, Naval Complex E-8 and Saadiya Mushtaq of F.G. College for Women, F-7/2, were declared second and third in the pre-medical group with 942 and 940 marks, respectively.

It may be mentioned here that Saadiya Mushtaq had secured the first position in the matric examination of the Rawalpindi Board with 784 marks representing Siddeeq Public School, Rawalpindi.

In the same group, Ali Imran Amjad of F.G. Sir Syed College, The Mall Rawalpindi Cantt stood first with 945 marks while Mohammad Imran Khan Wajid and Mohammad Hafeezur Rehman, both of PAF Inter College Mianwali, secured second and third positions by obtaining 940 and 939 marks respectively.

In the pre-engineering group, Sana Arif of F.G. College for Women, F-7/2, clinched the first position by securing 953 marks. Sana Arif had stood second in the board in matric examination by obtaining 780 marks. She is a former student of Siddeeq Public School, Rawalpindi.

Saima Usman of F.G. Degree College for Women, Multan Cantt and Madiha Hussain Malik of Army Public School and College, 208 Humayun Road Rawalpindi Cantt secured second and third positions by obtaining 949 and 942 marks respectively.

Among the boys, Sajid Saleem of F.G. Sir Syed College, The Mall Rawalpindi Cantt bagged first position by getting 838 marks, while Shahzad Aslam Khan of PAF Inter College Mianwali was declared second with 936 marks and Hammad Murtaza of Army Public College, Multan Cantt third for getting 935 marks.

In the science general group, Sana Sohail of the Islamabad College for Girls, F-6/2 obtained 919 marks and stood first in the group. Sonya Tahir of the Army Public School and College 208 Humayun Road Rawalpindi Cantt got 915 marks and stood second and Nadia Gul of Army Public School and College, Bahawalpur Cantt secured 912 marks and stood third.

Among the boys, Mohammad Usman Riaz of the Pakistan Education Academy, Dubai secured 870 marks and was declared first. The second and third positions were secured by Adil Jamil of International School and College of PAK, Khatian, Kuwait and Taimoor Ali of F.G. Sir Syed College, The Mall Rawalpindi Cantt. They obtained 869 and 856 marks respectively.

In the humanities group, Maryah Riaz of F.G. Degree College for Women, Kharian Cantt stood first with 840 marks, Sajida Mohuddin of F.G. College for Women, Kashmir Road, Rawalpindi Cantt obtained 804 marks and secured the second position while Sadia Malik of Pakistan International School, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia bagged the third position with 798 marks.

Among the boys, Misbahur Rehman, a private candidate, stood first with 778 marks, Ahmad Raza of F.G. Sir Syed College, The Mall Rawalpindi Cantt obtained 764 marks and stood second and Abdul Basit, a private candidate, remained third with 751 marks.

In the commerce group, Bohi Shajahan of Pakistan Urdu School, Bahrain stood first with 828 marks while Farah Fatima and Safina, both of Pakistan Islamia Higher Secondary School Ajman UAE, secured second and third positions. They obtained 824 and 803 marks respectively.

Among the boys in the group, Zeeshan Nawaz of Punjab College of Information Technology Islamabad stood first with 820 marks, Rashid Anwer of Pakistan Urdu School, Bahrain and Shahrukh Mateen of Punjab College of Information Technology Islamabad shared the second position with 805 marks. Sohail Khalid of F.G. College of Commerce, H-8/4 Islamabad obtained 794 marks and remained third.

According to the result statistics, 31,841 candidates appeared in the examination out of which 22,811 students passed. Out of the total candidates, 11,818 were girls and 10,993 boys.

This year 8,689 students failed in the examinations out of which 5,259 were boys and 3,430 girls.

Out of the passed candidates, 344 students (187 girls and 157 boys) secured A-1 grades. As many as 3,313 candidates (1,799 girls and 1,514 boys) passed the exams in A-grade, 5,634 in B- grade and 8,122 in C grade.

The FBISE has announced that 150 cases of unfair means were reported this year and said a judicious procedure was observed to decide all these cases. Before deciding the cases of alleged unfair means, maximum efforts were made to provide fair opportunity of defence to all candidates involved in such cases.

A statement issued in this regard said every possible measure was adopted to ensure that personal hearing was granted to every candidate. Meanwhile, undecided cases were under process.

The statement has asked those candidates whose results have been withheld for various reasons like fee/eligibility to resolve these discrepancies in their own interest to help the office declare their results.

It said the candidates against whose roll numbers and names some abbreviation of relevant subjects had been mentioned had failed. They have been allowed to reappear in the supplementary examination 2002. The candidates who have availed all chances will have to take the examination in all subjects under the syllabus prescribed for the year in which they appear.

The FBISE has announced that the supplementary examination of HSSC 2002 will start from October 22.