Application of Discriminant Analysis to Predict The Institute's Annual Performance in Sargodha Board

3 Abstract: This study has been carried out on the annual performance of 2 Year (12 year education) results nd th 2014 of various institutes affiliated with Sargodha board. Discriminant analysis has been used for achieving sharper discrimination between two categories (group 1: institutes having annual results below board average result and group 2: institutes having annual results above board average result) based on disciplines of institutes, gender, status of institutes and geographical area of four districts in Sargodha division. Successful discrimination is made between institutes with results below or above board average. Clustering annual results of institutes under two categories is statistically significant on the basis of discriminant analysis. The data is obtained from managing body of Sargodha board. Analyzing set of seven variables shows five of them significantly help in discriminating between institutes with result below or above board average. Therefore it is suggested to reclassified institutes who were misclassified under results below board average result. institutes having annual results above board average Prediction about institute success rate in terms of result based on disciplines of institutes, gender, status of whether its annual result is below or above board average institutes and geographical area of four districts. result is actually a process of determining that which Out of total 230 institutes affiliated with group that particular institute belongs. Typically an Sargodha board the annual results of 93 institutes are institute is declared as having result below or above included, other institutes were dropped from the analysis board average result on basis of overall averages of due to unavailability of all four disciplines in these various disciplines percentage scores regardless of taking institutes. some other factors that may be more likely to affect its