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Biology 10 EM (PECTAA 2026)

Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board, Lahore

Bibliographic record

BoardPunjab Curriculum and Textbook Board, Lahore
Class10
SubjectBiology
MediumEnglish
CurriculumPECTAA 2026
Edition2026
ApprovalPublisher edition string 'PECTAA 2026'
Pages128
File size63 MB
PDF producerCorel PDF Engine Version 26.2.0.170

Evidence tier

scanned   English OCR — quotation permitted after re-verification by exact string match.

Measured scores

A1 Religious saturation 1
A3 Received truth 4
A5 Militarism 2
A6 Othering 1
A7 Gender conservatism 4

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.

Evidence recorded 3

Three kinds, deliberately styled apart. A quotation is verbatim wording and is only ever taken from English-medium text. An observation describes structure or theme — the only kind permitted for Urdu and Sindhi material, which this project never quotes. An absence is a negative result: a probe was run and returned nothing, which is the weakest claim made anywhere on this site.

absence religion lens A1 = 1 English OCR #e01

Zero religious tokens across 31,566 words.

A negative result. It records that a probe was run and found nothing — not that the thing is not in the book. Where this rests on Urdu material the correct reading is not established, never absent, because degraded Nastaliq OCR cannot tell those apart.

observation history lens A3 = 4 English OCR #e02

2 evaluation prompts, 0 open, across 31,566 words.

observation patriotism lens A5 = 2 English OCR #e03

0.5/1k — martial vocabulary appearing in a biology book, which is where A5 becomes diagnostic.

Every passage recorded for this book is shown above — nothing is withheld or truncated. Each item has a permanent anchor, so a single piece of evidence can be linked and disputed on its own.

Findings that cite this book 1

Religionhigh confidence

Across eleven class-10 biology, chemistry and physics volumes from all four boards — roughly 530,000 words — religious framing is effectively absent, and five of the eleven contain zero religious tokens. This holds across three curriculum generations and all four provinces.

A finding states and cites; it does not argue. The argument is in the studies. Where a finding has counter-evidence it is printed above, in the same block, because a finding that hides its counter-evidence is a worse finding rather than a stronger one.

Availability of the book itself

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Provenance

Local filepctb-punjab/class-10/biology-10-en.pdf
Copy retrieved
SHA-256 of the analysed file069ec6dfcabc6d9abc5d37cb32f22dcce9a5b2a8139a39ad41199b51ffd37ec9
Sourcehttps://drive.usercontent.google.com/download?export=download&confirm=t&id=1Qdvuek3OY2pXSPFTkRU7ECCFsnVfODoD

The checksum is of the exact file these findings were computed from, so anyone can prove they hold the same bytes. The retrieval date is when this copy was fetched to the project's own disk, not a formal web-archive capture. Boards and mirrors reprint and reorganise continuously, so a source link may not resolve, and may not serve the same edition if it does. The bibliographic record above — board, class, subject, medium, curriculum, edition, approval reference and page count — is what identifies the book; the link is a convenience. This project does not republish the PDF itself, for the copyright reasons set out in about.

Identifiers and permanent link

Record IDpctb-biology-10-en
Permanent link/books/pctb-biology-10-en/
This record as data/books/pctb-biology-10-en.json · whole dataset

The record ID is an accession number that happens to be readable. It never changes, even if the metadata encoded in it turns out to be wrong — if this book's board, class, subject or medium is corrected, the correction appears in the fields above and the ID stays as it is. That is the only way a link made today still resolves in ten years. The full rule is in the standards.

Cite this record

Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board, Lahore, Biology 10 EM (PECTAA 2026), 2026. Catalogued by the Textbook Evidence Project as pctb-biology-10-en, corpus version 210 records. Retrieved from /books/pctb-biology-10-en/

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