“Every single student is unique. AKU examination board has helped us recognise our uniqueness and cultivate it to attain success in life.”
- An Award Recipient
AKU-EB’s HSSC graduates have earned admissions to around 230 universities in Pakistan and almost 60 institutions abroad, and the numbers keep growing. Approximately 82 per cent of its HSSC graduates of 2013 (out of a sample of 1,100 surveyed) gained admissions to universities across Pakistan and abroad.
- President Firoz Rasul, AKU President
KARACHI: The Aga Khan University Examination Board( AKU-EB) hosted annual high achievers awards ceremony at the university campus on Wednesday, recognising the outstanding students who took the 2014 Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) examinations.
The Board recognised 185 high achievers from 21 cities across Pakistan including Karachi, Hyderabad, Larkana, Sukkur, Daharki, Naushero Feroz, Khairpur, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, Gilgit-Baltistan, Skardu and Chitral.
“Every single student is unique. AKU examination board has helped us recognise our uniqueness and cultivate it to attain success in life,” said one of the award recipients.
Photo: Riza Elahi
The top three position holders in both qualifications also received cash prizes. Among the top SSC candidates were Hiba Khalid (1st) of P.E.C.H.S Girls School, Karachi, Maliha Ahmed Eesha (2nd) of Nusrat Jehan Academy Girls High School, Chenab Nagar and Syeda Kanza Kazmi (3rd) of Al-Murtaza School (Girls) Karachi.
The top HSSC candidates were Afshan Hussain (1st) of Habib Girls Higher Secondary School, Karachi, Sadori (2nd) and Sadaf Batool Rizvi (3rd) of Aga Khan Higher Secondary School, Karachi.
The award ceremony this year also marked an important milestone: the announcement of the first 10 awardees of the AKU-EB Bridge Scholarship. The merit-cum-needs-based scholarship funds two years of HSSC education at an AKU-EB affiliated school or college and is offered to AKU-EB SSC graduates.
“For me, it’s a double celebration today, for my awards and for the scholarship,” said Muhammad Ghazanfar Sakrani of BVS Parsi School, Karachi who stood first in the Humanities Group, received a distinction in Economics and is also among the 10 students selected for AKU-EB Bridge Scholarship.
“It’s a good step to encourage candidates who have the potential but don’t have the means”, he said and when asked about what helped him achieve this success, he said, “AKU-EB syllabuses define cognitive levels for every topic which makes it easier to study. Then, conceptual understanding and application of concepts tell us where we really stand. So anyone who self studies regularly can surely get the reward of their hard work with this Board.”
Via http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/sindh/27-Nov-2014/aku-hosts-annual-high-achievers-awards-ceremony
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