The Sindh provincial government announced that Karachi’s Board of Intermediate Education (BIEK) Class-XI students who did not pass their 2023 exams will receive a 15% grace mark boost. This decision follows a report by a fact-finding committee led by VC NED Dr Sarosh Lodhi, commissioned by interim Chief Minister Justice (retd) Baqir.
The grace marks aim to benefit students in pre-engineering, pre-medical, and general science fields, with specific allocations of 15 marks for mathematics, 12 for physics and statistics, and 12 for chemistry, alongside 6 marks each for botany and zoology.
The move comes as a response to widespread dissatisfaction with the initial exam results, which led to protests from students and parents. Disagreement among Sindh’s senior officials over the exam outcomes has been evident.
Governor Kamran Tessori highlighted the distressing failure rates, noting that 64% of Karachi’s students did not pass their first-year intermediate exams. He emphasized the broader negative implications of such high failure rates.
The detailed failure statistics revealed that 80% of candidates in the Inter Arts Group first year (regular), 72% in the Inter Arts Group first year (private), and 63% in the commerce first year (private) failed their exams.
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