Statistics of SSC Examination Enrolment of Candidates for any examination may not be deemed a true yardstick for determining the pass percentage. A considerable number of candidates remain absent in the examination or pull themselves out of the examination. The exact pass percentages can be calculated by considering the total number of candidates appeared in all the subjects and number of candidate passed in the examination. The candidature of the Rawalpindi Board for the year 1999 to 2003 is given below. 
It may be noted that the enrolment for the year 2003 is 25431(candidates more, than the year 1999). The increase is 33.23%. Table-1 clearly shows that the drop out in Rawalpindi Board in 1999 was 1.29%, 1.31% in 2000 1.08% 2001 0.67% in 2002, and 0.72% in 2003. It was maximum in 2000, i.e.1.31%. Its means that improved examination policy is the major factor to decrease the dropout tendency and increase the enrolment of candidates for Rawalpindi Board. Pass Percentage Comparison of the pass percentage of Secondary School Certificate Examination for the years, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 is as under.
The Pass percentage for the year 2002 is 2.80% which is 6.19%, 3.41% and 6.49% and higher than 2001, 2000,1999 and 2003. Private Vs Regular Candidates The number of private students appeared in SSC Annual Examination 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000 and 1999 is higher than Regular Student for the same years. Pass percentage of candidates appearing as regular from 1999 to 2003 has gone higher.
It may be noted that the pass percentage of private candidates for the years 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 is less as compared to Regular Students for the same years.Table-3 supports this observation. The pass percentage of regular candidates for Secondary School Certificate Annual Examination 2003 is 63.46 % where as it is only 28.47% for private candidates. Students Achievements The performance and achievements of students, who appeared in the Secondary School Certificate examination in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003, is clearly depicted by the Table-4.
Grading Achievement It may be mentioned here that indication of number of grades alone is not enough to express the actual degree of performance and achievements of the candidates of SSC for the last five years. A useful and more convincing method of comparing the achievements of students quantitatively is determination of grade per thousand candidates who appear in all subjects.
Table 5 and graph once again support the previous observation that new policies have facilitated the candidates to achieve higher grades in 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, as compared to 1999. Grading Achievement (Regular Vs Private) It is worth mentioning here that only pass percentage of regular and private candidates is not sufficient to assess the quality of performance. It is important to analyze the grades achieved by over all candidates, which is presented in table-6.
It is quite evident from table-6 that the grades achieved by regular candidates has always been better than that of private candidates. The grade achieved by regular candidates in 2000,2001, 2002 and 2003 are better than private candidates. Male Vs Female Candidates The Result Gazettes of Secondary School Certificate Annual Examinations 1999,2000,2001, 2002 and 2003 support the fact that the participation of Male candidate is 57.88%, 58.86%, 58.16%, 57.89% and 58.64% respectively which the participation percentage of Female candidates for these years is 42.11, 41.13, 41.83, 42.10 and 41.35. The pass percentage comparison
of Male and Female candidates for the SSC Annual examinations 1999-2003
shows that although the number of Male candidate is increasing constantly
throughout these four years, the pass percentage of Female candidates
is much better than that of Male candidates. Again the pass percentage
of Female candidates is 20.36% which is higher than that of pass
percentage of Male candidates for the year 2003 and it has been
18.74% higher in 1999,18.35% in 2000,14.86% in 2001 and 14.00% in
2002. Grade Achievement Male
Vs Female
For the Secondary School Certificate Annual Examinations 1999-2003, participation rate pass percentage and grades achievement of Male Vs Female students is shown in the Table-8. The grad wise position of Female candidates is higher
than that of Male candidates for these years. Grade Achievement /1000 Male Vs Female The pass percentage of Male Vs Female candidates is not sufficient to assess the quality of performance. Hence a useful and more convincing method for comparison of the achievement of grade of students per thousand who appeared in all the subjects, is given in Table-9. It is clear from the above table 9
that the achievement of grade A+, A, B,C,D, for female candidates
is constantly increasing. 
Science Group Vs General Group The above table and graph show, that the pass percentage of science group is much higher than that of general group candidates for the last four years, which reflects that candidates of science group are more serious in their studies as compared to the students of general group. It can also be concluded from the above table that participation of science candidates is very much less than that of general group for the last four years. Achievement
of Candidates in Grades/1000 Science Group Vs General Group
Variability in Pass Percentage of Various Subjects It is easily understandable that there is variability in pass percentage of different subjects for different years. The pass percentage of English declines in years 2000 and 2001 as compared to years 1999, 2002 and 2003. As far as the pass percentage of Urdu, Pak Studies, Ist (Comp) and Math is concerned it decreases in 2001 as compared to 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2003. There is no notable change in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Food and Nutrition, Electric Wiring, Furniture and Cabinet Making for the years 2003, There is notable change in Computer Science in which Number of Students has Increased every year. Subject
Wise Pass Percentage Subject Wise Percentage
The number of unfair means cases registered in a Board during an examination is a good indicator of the degree of malpractices in the examinations system. Most of the cases were registered against the candidates for adopting unfair means during the conduct of examinations but some were detected during the evaluation of scripts and preparation of results. The data for UMCs for the last four years is as under. This Table shows that in Rawalpindi Board the number of UMCs has sharply fallen in 2003 as compared to 2002, 2001,2000 and 1999. The number of UMCs in 2003 was only 17. It clearly indicates the effectiveness of the remedial measures taken by the Board authorities under the direction of the Govt of Punjab. Marks of Top Position Holders The Marks obtained out of 850 by the top position holders in Secondary School Certificate Annual Examination for the years 1999, 2000,2001, 2002 and 2003 are given below.
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