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General Science 8 KPK (legacy)
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board, Peshawar
Bibliographic record
| Board | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board, Peshawar |
|---|---|
| Class | 8 |
| Subject | General Science |
| Medium | English |
| Curriculum | National Curriculum 2006 |
| Edition | 2006-curriculum reprint |
| Approval | DCTE Abbottabad, NC-2006 series |
| Pages | 169 |
| File size | 18.1 MB |
| PDF producer | A-PDF Watermark 4.7.6 |
Analysis
The most content-neutral book in the entire corpus for social analysis, and it carries no lens evidence entries at all for exactly that reason: zero religious tokens across 169 pages, a religious-term density of 0.00, which is the corpus floor and the source of its A1 of 1. Architecturally it is the same book Sindh publishes at class 8, chapter for chapter. Its substantive content is modern in places, with a full biotechnology chapter carrying genetic-modification material, but it contains no COVID-19 content whatsoever, which dates its content to before 2020 regardless of the reprint year and confirms the edition audit's finding that KP never modernised class-8 English or General Science when it moved the other four subjects onto the 2022 curriculum. A7 is 5 on a countable English-medium basis: one female token in 32,765 words. There is little else to say about this book, and a researcher should not read its silence on religion as a KP-wide pattern; the neighbouring KP science volumes are not silent.
Evidence tier
scanned English OCR — quotation permitted after re-verification by exact string match.
Measured scores
Axes not listed were not scored for this book — coverage is uneven by design. All axes run 1–5, where 1 is the secular/pluralist/open pole. See the method.
Availability of the book itself
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Provenance
| Local file | kptbb-kp/class-8/general-science-8-en.pdf |
|---|---|
| Copy retrieved | |
| SHA-256 of the analysed file | 46f7272092d33e3adf9cfc7a0da9857ee0e196a8b629aa146872395fbcdc99b0 |
| Source | https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1UqEis1UIuJYjsUgKhzYfYGDy3j4TktA1 |
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Identifiers and permanent link
| Record ID | kptbb-general-science-8-en |
|---|---|
| Permanent link | /books/kptbb-general-science-8-en/ |
| This record as data | /books/kptbb-general-science-8-en.json · whole dataset |
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