General Science

Nine books, three per board, classes 6 to 8 — and one of the nine cannot be used. Sindh publishes no English edition of General Science 6; its Urdu volume is 168 pages of Nastaliq that could not be theme-graded at all, its chapter marker returning nine scattered hits that resolve into no structure. It is excluded from every comparison and its scores are placeholders. The remaining eight divide into two camps that have nothing to do with province. Sindh and KP are running the same twelve-chapter book at class 7 and again at class 8 — chapter for chapter, in the same order, both National Curriculum 2006 in AFAQ-prepared editions. Punjab has re-platformed onto SNC 2022 and shares only about four of twelve chapter titles at class 7, adding Immunity and Diseases, Chemical Bonds and Solutions, dropping the Water chapter both other boards give a full unit, and carrying a Punjab-only Technology in Everyday Life chapter at all three grades.

This is the most technocratic subject in the corpus after Geography, and its A1 scores sit at or near the floor across the board. KP's class-8 volume contains zero religious tokens in 169 pages, a religious-term density of 0.00 — the corpus floor. Punjab's class-7 book, the only Punjab science file extracted as native digital text, has zero religious tokens too, not even the bismillah the other Punjab science volumes carry. Where religion appears it is incidental and historical rather than scriptural: a one-line credit that Al-Haitham invented the pinhole camera in KP 6, a hadith epigraph on the inside cover of KP 7 making the seeking of knowledge obligatory, a single worldview aside in Punjab 6 that plants are a blessing of Allah, and in Sindh 8 nothing in the body at all — its 2 rests solely on an STBB preface stating that the new generation must be conversant with Islamic ideology.

Currency is the cleanest split. COVID-19 appears in all three Punjab volumes and in zero Sindh or KP science books, dating the Sindh and KP material to before 2020 regardless of the reprint year. Climate change, by contrast, is well covered at class 8 by all three. Pedagogically Punjab and Sindh are activity-dense (66 and 65 activities at class 7) against KP's 20 and, at class 6, five — a demonstration-led rather than inquiry-led design. Sindh's class-7 volume is the corpus's only genuinely localised science book, illustrating water with the River Indus and Clifton Beach, naming Thar the driest region and setting an activity to map Sindh's clean-water sources; Punjab's provincial mentions are entirely masthead.

Only two axes were assigned to these books. A7 is 5 almost everywhere and always by absence: one female-marked token in 27,182 words in KP 7, one in 32,765 in KP 8, one in 41,060 in Punjab 7. Sindh 7 posts the corpus's highest ratio at 1.188, but on roughly 35 tokens, and while named girls do run the inquiries, one exemplar teaches heat radiation through a girl's choice of dress colour. Careers content is absent from all six General Science volumes in all three boards.

Be blunt about the evidence: the six social lenses barely touched these books. Punjab's three volumes and KP's class-8 carry almost no lens evidence entries, and nothing about civics, militarism, othering or national narrative is established for any of them. General Science stops at class 8 in every board — the separate sciences take over at 9 — so there is no class-10 gap to fill here, though Punjab's reissue of its class 10 under a 2026 PECTAA syllabus means its lower-secondary SNC-2022 science books are now a generation behind their own board's matriculation year. Confidence is otherwise high on English-medium counts, with the caveat that KP's contents pages did not survive OCR and its chapter lists were rebuilt from learning-outcome blocks.