The 2025 Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) First Annual Examination results from the Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education (BISE) Rawalpindi reveal a clear performance gap between male and female students. Across every academic stream, both regular and private, female candidates outperformed their male counterparts, continuing a consistent trend that has been observed in previous years.
Overall Pass Percentage
- Boys: 22,667 appeared, 7,106 passed – 31.35%
- Girls: 39,353 appeared, 19,845 passed – 50.43%
- Combined: 62,020 appeared, 26,951 passed – 43.46%
Regular Candidates Performance
Humanities Group
- Male: 4,626 appeared, 913 passed – 19.74%
- Female: 12,888 appeared, 5,737 passed – 44.51%
Pre-Medical Group
- Male: 2,223 appeared, 877 passed – 39.45%
- Female: 8,869 appeared, 4,947 passed – 55.78%
Pre-Engineering Group
- Male: 1,482 appeared, 757 passed – 51.08%
- Female: 1,132 appeared, 701 passed – 61.93%
General Science Group
- Male: 11,598 appeared, 3,936 passed – 33.94%
- Female: 13,149 appeared, 7,108 passed – 54.06%
Commerce Group
- Male: 1,399 appeared, 404 passed – 28.87%
- Female: 883 appeared, 528 passed – 59.79%
Private Candidates Performance
Humanities Group
- Male: 1,339 appeared, 219 passed – 16.36%
- Female: 2,432 appeared, 824 passed – 33.88%
Commerce Group
- Male: 213 appeared, 23 passed – 10.8%
- Female: 137 appeared, 50 passed – 36.5%
Gender Gap in Academic Performance
Female students outperformed male students in every group, especially in science and commerce, where the gap was as high as 30 percentage points.
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