The Punjab Board of Technical Education (PBTE) has announced its DAE (Diploma of Associate Engineering) annual examination results for 2026, covering the First Year and Second Year annual exams. The results were declared on 24 September 2026, and they matter to a large number of students: out of 21,929 candidates who appeared for the exams, 15,532 passed, putting the overall pass percentage at 70.82%.

If you are one of the thousands of DAE students waiting to confirm your own result, or figuring out what comes next after seeing it, here is what you need to know.

How to check your result PBTE results are published on the board's official website. To check yours, go to the PBTE site and find the Results section, then select the relevant examination -- in this case the DAE Annual Result 2026 -- and choose your year (1st or 2nd Year). Enter your roll number (your registration number or CNIC also works as a search field on most result portals) and submit to view your result. It is worth saving a screenshot or printing the result page for your own records as soon as it loads, rather than assuming you can always retrieve it later.

If you are not satisfied with your result PBTE allows students who believe there has been an error in their marking to apply for rechecking or re-totaling of their answer scripts. The board's public notices do not specify a fixed fee or deadline for this process in a way that applies uniformly every year, so the safest step is to check the latest rechecking notice on PBTE's own website or contact your institute's examination section directly for the current fee and the exact cut-off date to submit your application -- these details are typically announced separately from the result itself and can change from one cycle to the next.

If you passed A pass on your DAE annual exam keeps you on track for your diploma, and depending on which year you just cleared, you can either progress to your next year of study or, if you have completed your final year, begin preparing your documents for further studies or for the job market in your technical field. Many DAE holders go on to pursue a B.Tech (Technology) or engineering transfer programmes, so if that is your plan, start checking the specific entry requirements and application windows for those programmes now rather than after your transcript is issued, since some of those windows open on their own separate schedule.

If you did not pass PBTE conducts supplementary (2nd Annual) examinations as part of its regular academic cycle, and based on the board's typical pattern, the supplementary result for this cycle is expected around November-December 2026. Use the weeks between now and the supplementary exam notice to identify exactly which paper or papers you need to repeat, and request the relevant notice directly from your institute or PBTE's website as soon as the supplementary exam schedule is announced, since the exact dates are published separately rather than alongside the annual result.

The bottom line Whether you passed or are repeating a paper, the practical first step is the same: confirm your result directly from PBTE's official result page rather than relying on a forwarded screenshot or a third-party listing, since only the board's own portal reflects any later corrections from the rechecking process. From there, the path forward -- progressing to the next year, applying for further study, or preparing for a supplementary paper -- depends on which outcome applies to you, so act on the specific notice relevant to your situation rather than general rumours about dates.