Zero religious tokens across 31,566 words.
Overview / Findings / Religion
Matriculation science is secular in every province
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.
Across eleven class-10 biology, chemistry and physics volumes — roughly 530,000 words from all four boards — religious framing is effectively absent, and five of the eleven contain none at all. Punjab's Biology 10 returns zero religious tokens across 31,566 words; KP's Physics 10 zero across 70,090; Balochistan's Chemistry 10 zero across 42,030. What makes this unusual is its stability: it holds across three curriculum generations and all four provinces, and no vintage control disturbs it. Whatever these curricula do elsewhere, they do not put religion into the matriculation science classroom.
What was checked and not found
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Zero religious tokens across 70,090 words.
Zero religious tokens across 42,030 words.
Limits
One of very few findings in this study that no vintage control disturbs. Whatever these curricula do elsewhere, they do not put religion into the matriculation science classroom.
Boards and confidence
PunjabSindhKhyber PakhtunkhwaBalochistan high confidence
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Source
Punjab Biology 10, 2026 edition; Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Physics 10, scan 2021 edition; Balochistan Chemistry 10, NC 2006 edition
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Textbook Evidence Project, “Matriculation science is secular in every province”. Evidence from 3 textbooks (Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan). Corpus version 210 records. Retrieved from https://textbookevidence.com/findings/matriculation-science-is-secular/
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