Around 40% of students from private schools locked out of good colleges

KARACHI: The divide between students of public and private schools has grown larger this year.

The statistics speak for themselves: Around 35,300 students from Karachi’s public schools took the matriculation exams in April this year. Only 55 percent of them managed to pass and out of the lucky ones, only 299 could score ‘A1’, the top grade awarded to students who score 80 percent or more.

When juxtaposed with public schools’ performance, private institutions seem to be churning

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