ISLAMABAD: Girls swept most of the leading spots as the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education declared its 2026 intermediate exam results on Wednesday. Out of 15 top positions announced across five groups, female candidates claimed 11, extending a run that’s now stretched across several annual result cycles at FBISE.
The result declaration covered both HSSC Part I and Part II students, affecting well over two hundred thousand candidates from colleges across Islamabad, Rawalpindi, and affiliated regions.
A Pattern That Keeps Repeating
This is not new territory for FBISE. Past annual results have shown similar imbalances, with girls sweeping every position in groups like pre-medical and commerce in more than one recent session. What stands out this year is how far that dominance extends into pre-engineering, a group that historically saw closer competition between male and female candidates.
Rameen Arjumand of Army Public School and College Girls, Rawalpindi Cantt, topped pre-engineering outright with 1,075 marks, with Zainab Sami and Ansa Fatima taking the second and third spots. All three positions went to girls this year, something that hadn’t happened as cleanly in some earlier sessions.
Group-by-Group Breakdown
Pre-medical stayed true to form. Ammara Azhar led with 1,079 marks, edging out Muhammad Jahanzaib at 1,078 and Syeda Iman Fatima at 1,076. The margin between first and second position was razor-thin, just one mark, which gives a sense of how tightly matched the top scorers actually were this year.
Commerce again went almost entirely to female candidates. Aqsa Farooq topped the group with 1,051 marks, followed by Aiza Afzal and Amina Asif. In humanities, Iman Fatima led with 1,007 marks and Amina Azhar came second, though Yahya Fazal and Umair Raza managed to share third position, the only male names to appear in this year’s top-three lists outside pre-medical.
The Numbers Behind the Result
FBISE Chairman Dr Ikram Ali Malik put this year’s overall pass rate at 85.95 percent for Part II candidates, with Part I trailing at 65.31 percent, a gap that’s fairly standard given how much harder first-year intermediate papers tend to be graded relative to the second year. Around 212,416 students sat the combined annual exams.
Those figures track closely with results from FBISE’s SSC exams earlier in the year, where girls had also outpaced boys in both pass percentage and top positions. Officials at that ceremony noted a nearly ten-point gap between female and male pass rates at the SSC level, and this year’s intermediate numbers suggest that gap is carrying forward rather than narrowing as students move up.
Why This Keeps Happening
There’s no single, board-confirmed explanation for the pattern, but a few things come up consistently when officials and college administrators discuss it. Attendance discipline tends to run higher among female candidates at FBISE-affiliated colleges, and several all-girls institutions in the Rawalpindi cantonment area, including Army Public School and College Girls, have produced position holders repeatedly across different years and different groups.
It’s worth being careful about reading too much into any single year’s numbers, though. Group sizes, paper difficulty, and even which colleges happen to enter particularly strong batches can all shift a result from one session to the next. Still, when the same pattern shows up across pre-medical, commerce, and now increasingly pre-engineering, it’s hard to call it a coincidence.
What This Means Going Forward
For this year’s top scorers, the immediate payoff is a strong hand in university admissions. Medical and engineering aggregate formulas in Pakistan weight intermediate marks heavily, so students at the top of these lists are likely to have first pick of seats in competitive programs across public-sector universities.
FBISE is expected to issue detailed subject-wise gazettes to affiliated colleges over the next few weeks, and students pursuing rechecking requests should keep an eye on the board’s website for the exact deadline, since that window typically closes fast once it opens.
FAQs
Can I check my FBISE results by roll number?
Yes, FBISE’s online result system is built around roll number lookup, so that’s really all you need alongside your registration details. Students who’ve misplaced their roll number can usually retrieve it through their college’s exam office, and the result stays visible on the portal for an extended period after the initial announcement, not just on result day.
Who got the highest marks in FBISE this year?
Ammara Azhar from Army Public School and College (Girls), Rawalpindi Cantt, posted the highest score among this year’s announced position holders, topping the pre-medical group with 1,079 marks, which was also the highest single score across all five groups combined.
What is the result date of class 9, 2026?
Class 9, or SSC Part I, results for 2026 were announced by FBISE separately and earlier than the intermediate results covered here. Students still waiting on pending or improvement results for class 9 should check FBISE’s official notices, as the board usually posts a specific date well ahead of the announcement itself.
