BISEs Punjab to start intermediate exams 2013 from May 07

Lahore, The Punjab Boards Committee of Chairmen has decided that the intermediate annual examinations 2013 will begin on May 7, 2013 in the nine boards of the Punjab.

The committee also decided that admission forms for secondary school (annual) examinations for 2013 will be received till Jan 3.

Lahore Board Chairman Nasrullah Virk will serve as PBCC chairman for one year.

Also, Punjab boards, particularly the Lahore, are facing problems as most private candidates for class-IX and X have not submitted their admission forms online and the boards are extending the forms submission dates.

It was further informed that Lahore board was expected to receive around 450,000 admission forms. However, the board has received only 20,000 private candidates’ admission forms online. Up to 236,000 forms of regular candidates have been received and waiting for remaining around 25,000 forms.

As private candidates are facing problems in uploading their admission forms, the Lahore board has started collecting private candidates’ admission forms manually and would upload it through its own officials.

A board official said that all government high schools had IT labs and they were able to send admission forms online but private candidates were facing problems in getting the IT facility.

In Punjab, Intermediate Date Sheet 2013 of all educational boards of Pakistan will be announced one month before the commencement of the exams. Intermediate exams mostly held in the month of April or May every year.

In Pakistan all provinces arranged intermediate examinations according to their schedule. Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Balochistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir are the provinces of Pakistan in which educational boards conduct matric and inter exams every year.

In Punjab there are total eight educational boards which conduct matric and inter exams. These are: Lahore Board, Gujranwala Board, Multan Board, Faisalabad Board, Sargodha Board, Rawalpindi Board, Bahawalpur Board and DG Khan Board. These boards announces intermediate date sheet one month before the commencement of exams.