The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) officially announced the HSC Part 1 results for 2024 in all academic groups on December 24, 2024. The results include complete details for Pre-Medical Science, Pre-Engineering, General Science, private humanities, private commerce and home economics groups, and like every year there is a fiasco around the results, highlighting the chaos of how students who obtained excellent grades at registration performed poorly in their first year. year. In a statement, BIEK’s exam controller highlighted the performance of each group, noting the difficulties faced by first-year students in passing the exams. In the pre-medical group, 31,267 students were enrolled, of whom 30,528 appeared for the exams. Among them, 10,914 students passed all six tests, while the rest obtained partial success. In the Pre-Engineering group, 23,391 students registered and 22,973 appeared for the exams. Of these, 6,674 passed all six tests, while many others achieved partial success in some subjects. For the General Sciences group, 17,690 students registered and 17,375 showed up. Of these, 6,282 passed all six papers, demonstrating a commendable performance. In the Arts group (private), 2,268 candidates registered, of whom 2,080 took the exams. Only 552 managed to pass all six tests. The Commerce (Private) group saw 1,651 registrations and 1,570 students. A total of 490 candidates passed all seven tests, with the remainder passing a limited number of subjects. In the home economics group, 194 students registered and 190 showed up. Among them, 75 passed all seven tests. Officials noted that while many students passed all their exams, a considerable number made partial progress by passing fewer papers. The Plight of Students Students have been complaining about the results since their announcement, a recurring problem every year, as mentioned earlier. Despite this story repeated for Sindh Board students, it is strange that no solution has been found. Typically, the results are released, followed by an examination procedure, which Zoya*, a student at a government college in Karachi, described as "unsuccessful" in his own words. “It’s so unfair. Students work very hard throughout the year, making sure to memorize every detail of the syllabus, only to face this mental agony once the results are announced. Our elderly parents are forced to wander around school board offices, begging officials to double-check our papers,” she said, her voice filled with anger as she held back tears. Zoya, a pre-med student, scored 85% on her matriculation exams, but her percentage dropped to 64% during her junior year. This came as a shock to her, as she found it difficult to understand how a student who had performed so well at matriculation could achieve such poor results at intermediate level. Similarly, Hussaina, another pre-medical student from a public university, who scored an impressive 79.6% with distinction in Chemistry from the Aga Khan University Examination Board (AKUEB), saw his percentage drop to 43% in his first year. “I got bad grades in chemistry and physics. I had a distinction in chemistry in my course but surprisingly I didn’t even pass in chemistry this year. My overall high school grade was an A, but in my first year I barely got an A,” she told the PK Press Club. Hussaina is yet to opt for scrutiny. Students in pre-engineering groups do not face a much different fate. As I passed the Practical Center, I came across a group of discouraged students standing outside. I approached a boy who looked particularly grim. “I got 90% in Matric. My coaching center, which was just a small facility in my neighborhood in Federal Zone B, Block 12, even had my face printed on its flyers. I studied day and night for my first year exams, ending up with 68% and a D in physics, which, by the way, is one of my strongest subjects,” Hassan* said undercover of anonymity. His friend Fahad*, who scored 84% on registration, failed in mathematics despite consistently receiving A grades in all his coaching exams throughout the year. “He’s the one who taught us the concepts. I can’t understand why he failed the exam,” said Ayub*, a friend of Fahad. Since these students are aiming for competitive engineering and medical exams, it is unfortunate that they have to endure such mental agony at a young age, leaving a lifelong impact on their mental health and in some cases, physical. Action by authorities so far The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) has introduced a 50% discount on exam fees for students wishing to revise their exam papers, as reported by Express News Monday. Previously fixed at Rs 1,000 per paper, the discounted fees are now applicable exclusively to Part I Intermediate Annual Examinations 2024 for Pre-Medical, Pre-Engineering, General Science, Home Economics, Private Commerce and Private Arts science groups. Students can submit exam forms till February 3, which can be downloaded along with the fee voucher from the official website of the Board. To streamline the process, the BIEK Chairman ordered the establishment of special counters at the Council Facilitation Center for submission of forms and fees. Furthermore, in response to concerns raised by students regarding the 2024 Intermediate Part I examination results, Karachi Board of Intermediate Education Chairman Syed Sharf Ali Shah announced the formation of a committee to investigation to respond to grievances. Names have been changed to protect the identities of the students.
BIEK 2024 results: Chaos, disappointments and broken dreams
