Punjab Minister for School and Higher Education Rana Sikandar Hayat announced the Matriculation examination results for all boards of intermediate and secondary education across the province simultaneously, alongside a new AI powered chatbot designed to help students access result related information instantly. Addressing the online result announcement ceremony, the minister said the introduction of new technology in this year’s result preparation process reflects the government’s broader push toward examination board digitisation.
As part of the changes, students will now be able to obtain their result cards online rather than receiving physical hard copies, with private school students able to download verified result cards directly through their institutions’ portals, removing the need for further verification steps. The newly introduced AI powered chatbot is intended to give students instant access to routine information about their results, eliminating the need to visit board offices in person for queries that can now be resolved digitally.
Hayat said the government is moving toward complete digitisation of examination boards, with plans to introduce full screen marking for paper assessment starting next year to improve grading quality and transparency. He added that the centralised paper checking system is being further developed, and that from next year, students will be able to apply for rechecking of their examination papers through a QR code based system, making the process more transparent and convenient compared to the current manual application method.
Alongside the technology upgrades, the minister directed all boards to raise cash awards for position holders from Rs20,000 to Rs100,000 per student, and distributed laptops to top performing students during the ceremony. He said transparency measures introduced this year had helped eliminate the vast majority of what he described as the cheating network operating around examinations, adding that there were no complaints this year of examination centres being compromised or money being exchanged for solving question papers. In Lahore, 182,186 of 282,308 candidates passed the SSC exams for a 64.53 percent pass rate, with girls outperforming boys by more than 16 percentage points, while Multan recorded a 72.65 percent pass rate among 133,019 candidates, with female students again outperforming their male counterparts across both divisions.
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