Number of Afghan college goers decreases in 2011

For the past two weeks I’ve been busy with my midterm exams and projects but I haven’t stopped checking the website of Ministry of Higher Education of Afghanistan once or twice a day ever since the Konkor result has come out.

In an overall evaluation that I did about the Konkor takers in a few central provinces, there is a proportional less number of students succeeded in exam compared to last year. But very unlike the previous years, this year students from Daikondi and Herat have surprisingly succeeded entirely with not even a single failure, and such a success has not been recorded in the history of Konkor Examination in Afghanistan before.

The chart below shows the detail.

Province	Konkor Takers	Succeeded	Failed	Percentage
Kabul	37355	8750	28605	23.43%
Ghazni	5650	3675	1975	65%
Bamyan	2325	1200	1125	51.07%
Balkh	4800	2850	1950	59.3%
Daikondi	556	556	0	100%
Herat	3100	3100	0	100%
Wardak	2850	1650	1200	57.9%
Knadahar	1100	457	643	42.55%
Nangarhar	7450	1559	5891	21%

This record shows that the number of students who succeeded in higher education in 1390 is less than the last year’s record in most of the provinces. Especially in capital city, Kabul, it is terribly shocking that almost 76% of the students have failed even though they spent too much time preparing for this tough exam. 





To see your result click here. http://konkor.mohe.gov.af/
To those who don't know about Konkor, it is a tough college entrance examination.