Social Studies (split comparison), class 7

Class 7 is where the structural difference does the most damage, because it is the year Sindh spends on the constitution. Sindh's single 196-page volume pairs ancient India and Persia with a genuine civics core — Unit 2, The Constitution and Citizenship (pp.40–63), teaching the 1973 Constitution, separation of powers, Dicey's rule of law, a classification of rights, the UDHR 1948, the Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989, Article 25-A, a nine-step advocacy method, and civil society existing "to limit and control the power of the state" (p.60) — plus micro-economics with demand and supply schedules and curves, which no other board attempts at this level, and an un-listed child-protection chapter on violence (pp.193–196). It scores A2 1 and A7 2, the latter the corpus's only critical gender text, naming unequal wages, denied career choice, honour killing and "male dominating society" (pp.161–163). Punjab's pair spends roughly forty pages of the history hour in medieval and early-modern Europe — the corpus maximum for world history at this grade — alongside a geography that is sixty per cent human and economic with real GDP and census statistics and a dedicated Climate Change chapter. KP's spends the entire history hour on the Mughals, 1526 to 1857, with zero world-Islamic history, alongside the longest geography in the corpus. Neither Punjab nor KP contains any civics whatsoever at this grade. The three provinces are therefore not teaching the same subject: a Punjabi child does the Renaissance, a KP child does Akbar, a Sindhi child does the rule of law and a demand curve. Sindh is also the only board using its own province operationally rather than ceremonially, working through the 2010 Tori Bund breach (p.98) and the 2001 drought (p.105). In the year Punjab teaches the Enlightenment and KP teaches the Mughals, Sindh teaches twelve-year-olds what a constitution is — and neither of the other two teaches it at all.