Karachi:Over 95 per cent of the registered special candidates passed their Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC-II) Humanities (Regular) Group Special Candidates Annual Examinations 2009, announced the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) on Thursday.

As per the data provided by the BIEK, 80 male candidates registered in the examinations, of whom 79 appeared and all passed. Thirty seven female candidates had also registered, of whom 35 appeared and 33 passed.

Arfeen Akram, a student of Ida Rieu School and College for Deaf, bagged first position among the special candidates. She scored 1003 marks out of a possible 1100 marks. Sanam Virani from ABSA College for the Deaf came in second with 988 marks. Tauqeer Nusrat, also from the same institute, came third with 987 marks.

BIEK statistics revealed that 11 male candidates and 16 female candidates bagged A-One grades in their exams, while 33 male and four female candidates secured A grades. Twenty four male and five female candidates secured B grades, nine male and seven female students passed with C grades. One student passed with a D grade, and another male student received an E. The students were registered at IDA Rieu College for the Deaf and DEWA Higher Secondary School, Gulshan-e-Iqbal.THE NEWS