Unit 1 The Saviour of Mankind (Seerah) opens the book — "Imbued with divine guidance and resolve, the Rasoolullah…" (english-9-en · PAGE 8); Unit 4 Hazrat Asma — the hijrah narrative (· PAGE 54).
Overview / Findings / Assessment
An exam question that asks the pupil to supply the target
Punjab's class-9 English reader asks pupils to draw parallels between pre-Islamic Arabia and other "periods of decline and renewal". It names no target. The pupil supplies it — and is marked on having supplied it.
The prompt does not arrive cold. The book opens with the Seerah — Unit 1, The Saviour of Mankind, at printed p. 8 — so the frame of decline and renewal is established long before the exercise appears. The question then asks the pupil to draw a parallel and deliberately names no target. Whatever the pupil supplies is therefore their own inference, and it is the inference that is marked.
“What parallels can you draw between the state of civilization described here and the other historical periods of decline and renewal?”Punjab English 9, 2022-23 edition — printed p. 8
What the books say
Each entry below is the catalogue's own record for that book on that axis, printed as it stands.
Limits
This is the study's central artefact for the assessment-demand argument: the inference is never stated by the book, but it is required from the pupil and graded.
Boards and confidence
Punjab high confidence
Confidence reflects the evidence tier this rests on. High means native or English-medium text verified by exact string match; medium means it depends partly on Urdu-medium material read at theme grade, or on an absence. See the method.
Source
Punjab English 9, 2022-23 edition — printed p. 8
The prompt is question 4 at printed p. 10, in the unit titled “The Saviour of Mankind”.
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Textbook Evidence Project, “An exam question that asks the pupil to supply the target”. Evidence from 1 textbook (Punjab). Corpus version 210 records. Retrieved from https://textbookevidence.com/findings/transfer-operation-question/
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