KSA conducts mock entry test for students in Khyber Agency

By Ashrafuddin Pirzada

LANDIKOTAL: Khyber Students Association (KSA) on Monday organized a mock entry test for school and college students in order to provide them free guidance about admission procedure in different educational institutions.

Around 180 students from Landikotal, Jamrud, Bara, Darra Adamkhel and Frontier Regions of Peshawar participated in the 'preparatory' entry test which was conducted in three shifts under the vigilant guidance of KSA office bearers and volunteers.    

KSA sought the help and assistance of experienced and senior staff members of some Peshawar colleges in preparation and checking of the entry test papers. 

KSA vice president Muhammad Yasir Shinwari told this scribe that his organization had been conducting the mock entry tests every year in order to enable students to properly understand the admission procedure in educational institutions of their choice outside tribal areas.

Shinwari regretted that scores of Fata students were denied admission in educational institutions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and elsewhere in the other cities of the countries as they were not properly guided and trained about the entry tests procedure. 

"We impart free coaching and guidance to tribal students prior to conducting of such mock entry tests and the exercise have so far produced very positive results", he said and adding that the exercise was also aimed at preventing the untimely dropping out of tribal students from their respective educational institutions.

He said that tribal areas had the lowest literacy rate and his organization in collaborations with other similar students organizations from other parts of Fata was striving to raise the literacy rate by awarding talented students and bearing the educational expenses of poor and needy students. 

"We organize all such activities from our own resources as the Directorate of Education Fata or the political administrations had never provided us any moral, financial or technical assistance", Yasir complained. 

He said that his organization had also been regularly organizing sports gala, awarded scholarships to talented students along with conducting regular counseling sessions with the hundreds of tribal students.