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The 2025 High Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) ‘s first annual examination results of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (Bise) Sargodha reveal a clear performance gap between male and female students. In each academic stream, both regular and private female candidates performed better than their male counterparts, which continued a consistent trend of previous years.
Overall pass percentage
According to the official data:
- Boys (all groups combined): 21.027 appeared, 12.260 passed – 58.31%
- Girls (all groups combined): 28.990 appeared, 22.168 passed – 76.47%
- Joint Total: 50.017 appeared, 34.428 passed – 68.83%
The numbers highlight a 18 percentage points performance gap, with girls scoring a much higher pass rate than boys in Sargodha.
Regular candidates’ performance
Human science group
- Male: 7.330 appeared, 3.806 passed – 51.92%
- Female: 11.709 appeared, 8.748 passed – 74.71%
Pre-medical group
- Male: 2.418 appeared, 2.031 passed – 84.00%
- Female: 6.533 appeared, 5.787 passed – 88.58%
Pre-entrance Sports Group
- Male: 1,333 appeared, 1.140 passed – 85.52%
- Female: 889 appeared, 812 passed – 91.34%
General science group
- Male: 4,966 appeared, 3,326 passed – 66.98%
- Female: 4,362 appeared, 3,470 passed – 79.55%
Trade group
- Male: 263 appeared, 194 passed – 73.76%
- Female: 156 appeared, 143 passed – 91.67%
Private Candidates Performance
Human science group
- Male: 3.234 appeared, 1.038 passed – 32.10%
- Female: 3.671 appeared, 2.191 passed – 59.68%
Pre-medical group
- Male: 611 appeared, 384 passed – 62.85%
- Female: 1.154 appeared, 798 passed – 69.15%
Pre-entrance Sports Group
- Male: 188 appeared, 80 passed – 42.55%
- Female: 69 appeared, 29 passed – 42.03%
General science group
- Male: 587 appeared, 207 passed – 35.26%
- Female: 397 appeared, 155 passed – 39.04%
Trade group
- Male: 42 appeared, 17 passed – 40.48%
- Female: 10 appears, 4 passed – 40.00%
Gender gap in academic achievement
Female students fared better than male students in almost all groups, with wide gaps in the humanities in particular and trade among regular and private candidates. Girls also showed strger results in science streams, especially in pre-medical and general science, further strengthening their academic lead in the Sargodha board.
