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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) Sahiwal is a clear performance gap between male 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): 18.714 appeared, 9.167 passed – 48.99%
- Girls (all groups combined): 24.527 appeared, 16.311 passed – 66.49%
- Joint Total: 43.241 appeared, 25.478 passed – 58.92%
The numbers highlight a performance gap of nearly 18 percentage points between male and female students in the total pass rate.
Regular candidates’ performance
Pre-medical group
- Male: 2,597 appeared, 2.085 passed – 80.28%
- Female: 7.048 appeared, 5.897 passed – 83.67%
Pre-entrance Sports Group
- Male: 1.092 appeared, 887 passed – 81.23%
- Female: 762 appeared, 634 passed – 83.20%
Human science group
- Male: 4.234 appeared, 1.592 passed – 37.60%
- Female: 6,016 appeared, 3.745 passed – 62.25%
General science group
- Male: 5,039 appeared, 2.945 passed – 58.44%
- Female: 4.873 appeared, 3.352 passed – 68.79%
Trade group
- Male: 243 appeared, 95 passed – 39.09%
- Female: 139 appeared, 115 passed – 82.73%
Private Candidates Performance
Pre-medical group
- Male: 848 appeared, 366 passed – 43.16%
- Female: 1,510 appeared, 817 passed – 54.11%
Pre-entrance Sports Group
- Male: 321 appeared, 126 passed – 39.25%
- Female: 158 appeared, 71 passed – 44.94%
Human science group
- Male: 3.206 appeared, 774 passed – 24.14%
- Female: 3,346 appeared, 1.436 passed – 42.92%
General science group
- Male: 1.021 appeared, 259 passed – 25.37%
- Female: 633 appeared, 223 passed – 35.23
Trade group
- Male: 110 appeared, 38 passed – 34.55%
- Female: 39 appeared, 21 passed – 53.85%
Gender gap in academic achievement
Female students fared better than male students in each group, with wide margins in particular in the humanities and trade categories. In science streams, girls also maintained higher pass rates, especially in pre-medical and general scientific groups.
