Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education, Rawalpindi

1. Govt. of the Punjab Education Department has approved the reforms in the examination system introducing a new scheme of studies from class 1 to 12 vide notification no: SO (A-11) 8-5/2002 dated 27-2004, which is implemented w.e.f 1st April, 2004.
The Boards of Intermediate & Secondary Education have conducted. The SSC Exam. Part-I (Class 9th) Exam in March 2005 and will hold Part-II (Class 10th ) Exam in March, 2006 under this new system.

2. (i) Private Candidates will not be allowed to appear in Science Group and Other Practical Examination. However, it will be decided in the coming Educational Session 2005-2007.

(ii) Part-wise system has been introduced in the new scheme of studies for the SSC Exam. and according to new scheme of studies Secondary School Certificate Examination will have 1050 total marks. Division of subjects and papers with marks per subject for Examination of Part-I (Class 9th) and Part-II (Class 10th) will be as under:

Deaf and Dumb Candidates

Selection of subjects for deaf and dumb candidates.
According to secondary school part system scheme of studies, selection /division of subjects for deaf and dumb candidates will be as follows.

Note: Curriculum is not available that is why these subjects will not be chosen.

3. Learning Achievements of the candidates will be assessed on the basis of his Textual knowledge, comprehension, application and analysis of his learning.

4. Question papers will contain questions in the manner as under:-

5. All questions of Objective Part will be Compulsory, However there will be 33% choice in Essay Type Part.

6. Question Papers will consist on four pages. Objective Type questions i.e. Multiple Choice, Matching, Completion and Short Answers, will be done only on the question papers.

7. Questions will not be given any number to avoid recognition's of questions and any leakage.

8. Candidate will not be allowed to carry any question or a part of question of objective paper outside of examination centre.

9. Any cutting or over writing will be considered as wrong in any objective question.

10. Only blue ink will be allowed to write answers there will be permission to use calculator. However Mini Computer Type Calculators will not be allowed to use during examination.

11. Admission in Part-I (class 9) will be according to the schedule approved by Board.

12. Examinations of Part-I (class-9) and Part-II (class-10) will be conducted every year on the dates according to schedule announced by the Board.

13. Registration schedule will be announced by the Board. Enrollment of Part-I (class-9) will be useful even for Part-II (class-10).

15. Duration of Practical and written examinations will be according to published curriculum.

17. It is compulsory for a regular candidate to appear in Part-I (class-9) Exam.

18. If a regular candidate wants to appear in exam as a private candidate's, his name should be struck off from the institution on or before 24th December.

19. Internal Assessment Grade will be taken from the institutions in the end of Part-II (class-10).

20. No candidate will be allowed to appear as a fresh candidate in supplementary examination.

22. There will be permission for Private Candidates to appear in Part-I (class-9) examination only or if they want so to appear in Part-I & Part-II (class-9 & 10) examination at a time.

23. If a regular candidate appears in Part-I (class-9) and cannot continue his regular studies due to any unavoidable circumstances and he has no practical subject in his component, he can appear in Part-II (class-10) examination as a private candidate.

24. If an institution cannot send Admission form of any candidate of Part-I(class-9) due to any unavoidable circumstance, it will keep that candidate in class-9 (Part-I) and will send his Admission Form of Part-I (class-9) next Year. If same situation occurs in Part-II (class-10) Admission Form of such candidate can be sent for Part-II (class-10) supplementary examination.

25. If a candidate can not appear in Part-I(class-9) examination after issuance of Roll Number Slip, such candidate will have to appear in Part-I (class-9) and Part-II (class-10) examination composite / collective next year.

26. Those candidates who can not appear in exam. Due to any circumstances after sending their Admission Forms and want to improve their Grades will be able to appear in next exam.

27. A candidate of Secondary School Certificate after appearing in Part-I (class-9) examination, will be eligible to appear in Part-II (class-10 examination and examination of those subjects in which he has failed in Part-I (class-9) in other Board under existing Rules. But he will avail this facility once only in full Academic session.

28. Result of a candidate who appears in class-9 examination will be valid for 2 years unless he appears in Part-II (class-10) exam. next year or he has passed the said exam. under Rule - 10 Chapter 1 Vol: II Board's Calender.

29. A candidate has to get minimum 33% marks in each subject to pass the examination.

31. Candidates of Part-I (Class-9) on the declaration of result will only be issued Result Information, whereas Grades will be awarded on combined marks of Part-I (Class-9) and Part-II (Class-10) examinations.

32. Marks obtained and Grades of the candidate will be mentioned on his Certificate to be issued under the rules after passing SSC (Part- I & II ) Exam.

33. The candidates who appear in Part-I (Class-9) will be promoted to Part-II (Class-10) and they will not wait for the result of Part-I (Class-9). Moreover no institution will Re-admit any student in Part-I (Class-9). However after change of Group he will be eligible for re-admission and if one passes or fails in Part-I (Class-9) examination he will not be allowed to re-appear in Part-I (Class-9) examination only.

34. Candidates failed in maximum two subjects will be eligible to re-appear in Supplementary Examination.

35. While compiling result of Part-II (Class-10), the candidates will be awarded grace marks of @ I% of total pass marks of Part-I and Part-II to qualify the exam. No Grace mark will be given in the result of Part-I exam. However if a candidate does not want to get grace marks, he will be given only one chance or providing an affidavit on a stamp paper attested by a head of institution that he may be announced/marked fail in the subject of Grace marks.

36. The candidates of Part-I (Class-9) who are declared Disqualified for one or more examination for use of UM (unfair means) they will be eligible to appear in Part-I & II (Class-9 & 10) examinations collectively after expiry of that period of disqualification. The candidate who uses Unfair means in Part-II (Class-10) examination his result of Part-I (Class-9) will also be cancelled.

37. To improve Grades or Marks, only one chance will be given with in two years after passing Part-II exam. The candidate will have to take exam. of those subjects in which he has already passed Secondary School Examination. However it will rest with the candidate either he wishes to take Part-I exam. to improve his marks or take Part-II exam or Composite (Part-I & Part-II) exam. to improve his grade or marks. Old marks will remain same if one does not improve his marks. Moreover such candidate will neither deserve any Grace marks nor scholarship.How candidates will be allowed any charge in opted Part before issuance of Roll No. After issuance of Roll No Slip he will have to take exam. of the part that he had mentioned in his Admission form.

38. A candidate of improvement of grade /marks will be eligible to appear in Secondary School Examination only in that Board from which he has passed the Secondary School Exam.

39. If a candidate sends Admission to improve Grade or marks and cannot appear in exam. due to any reason, his chance will remain intact to improve his marks. Any candidate who foregoes his Part-I result can appear in composite exam. of Part-I and Part-II but such candidate will not be eligible to improve his result after passing that exam.

40. A candidate after passing Secondary School Certificate examination is eligible to take exam. of such subject /subjects which he has not opted in SSC Examination previously.

41. The candidates who passed Adeeb Alam OR equivalent exam. from the Board they will be eligible to appear in Secondary School certificate examination under relevant rules and they will have to take composite exam. of Part-I (Class 9th) and Part- II (10th Class).

a) Only English such candidate will be award certificate of Passing English only at SSC level.

b) English Pak/ Studies, Mathematics and one subject of Arts Group (Not language) such candidates will be awarded certificate of secondary level after passing these subjects and their Grades will be considered on the basis of marks obtained under gradation Rules.

42. The candidate of the following categories will be eligible to appear in subject of Geography of Pakistan instead of Urdu (compulsory).

a) Foreign Students OR such Pakistani Students who got foreign Nationality OR such Pakistani students who could not get facility of studying: "Urdu"abroad at Secondary School Certificate level.

b) Such Pakistani Students who stayed abroad for three years continuously before Examination, and could not avail the facility of studying Urdu there at secondary school level.

43. The Students of Part-I and Part-II who will be fail in any subject, will just re-appear in the respective subject. For Example, If a student gets 30 marks in Part-I English/ Urdu paper and 15 marks in Part-II paper then the total will be 45 marks, as Part-II marks are less than 33% therefore, he will have to give just the Part-II English/ Urdu paper.

44. In Part-I (Class 9th) candidate has to acquire at least 33% to pass. And he will have to pass at least three papers, rest of failing subject will have to be necessarily cleared in Part-II (Class 10th). Those candidates who will not be able to pass three papers in Part-I (Class 9th), will have to give all the papers of Part-I (Class 9th) along with Part-II (Class 10th).