37 comparison cells · 8 covering all 5 boards that publish the subject

The comparison matrix

Every cross-board comparison in the study, in one view. Subjects run down, classes run across, and each cell carries a miniature seven-axis profile so the shape of a subject can be read at a glance before opening it.

Read the sparkline as a shape, not as values. Each line plots A1 to A7 left to right on the 1–5 scale, low at the bottom, averaged across the boards that publish that subject at that class. A line that rises to the right is a subject scoring conservative on gender and othering while staying secular on religion — the commonest profile in this corpus. Gaps in a line are axes with no scored book in that cell: a missing measurement, not a low one.

Subject	Class 6	Class 7	Class 8	Class 9	Class 10
Biology	Not published	Not published	Not published	5 boards · noted	4 boards · noted
Chemistry	Not published	Not published	Not published	5 boards · noted	5 boards · noted
English	4 boards · noted	4 boards · noted	4 boards · noted	5 boards · noted	5 boards · noted
General Science	4 boards · noted	4 boards · noted	4 boards · noted	Not published	Not published
Geography	3 boards · noted	3 boards · noted	3 boards · noted	Not published	Not published
History	3 boards · noted	3 boards · noted	3 boards · noted	Not published	Not published
Islamiyat	4 boards · noted	4 boards · noted	4 boards · noted	2 boards · noted	3 boards · noted
Mutalea Quran	Not published	Not published	Not published	2 boards · noted	Not published
Pakistan Studies	Not published	Not published	Not published	5 boards · noted	5 boards · noted
Physics	Not published	Not published	Not published	5 boards · noted	4 boards · noted
Social Studies (split comparison)	4 boards · noted	4 boards · noted	4 boards · noted	Not published	Not published
Urdu	4 boards · noted	4 boards · noted	4 boards · noted	4 boards · noted	3 boards · noted

An empty cell means no board in this study publishes that subject at that class — not that the study failed to find it. The clearest example is Pakistan Studies, which no board publishes below class 9, and the social-studies family, which Sindh issues as one integrated volume while the other three split it into History and Geography. Genuine acquisition failures are listed separately at what is missing.

What the matrix shows that a list does not

The corpus is not evenly examined, and the shape of that unevenness is the point. All 37 cells carry written commentary, but they do not carry equal weight. Cells covering 5 boards support the strongest claims in the study; cells with two support the weakest, and a cell whose books are Urdu-medium rests on structure rather than on wording.

Sparse lines are concentrated in the sciences. A chemistry or physics cell typically has three axes scored out of seven, because most lenses have no live question in a chemistry book. That is by design, but it means a science cell's profile is not comparable with a Pakistan Studies cell's, and the two should never be read side by side as if they were.

The densest cells are Pakistan Studies 9 and 10 and the class-6–8 history family — which is exactly where the national narrative lives, and where this study concentrated its reading.

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