2025 Official Difficulty Report
BISE Rawalpindi 9th Subject Failure Ranking (2025)
Official candidate failure metrics from Page 12 of the 2025 Result. Chemistry (42,517 fails) and Mathematics (41,717 fails) were the most challenging subjects in 2025.
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2025 Subject Difficulty Index: Executive Insights
Official Official Record candidate failure diagnostics across Rawalpindi Division
#1 Failure Bottleneck
Chemistry: 42,517 Fails
Exceeding all subjects with a 38.6% failure rate, driven by organic chemistry and mole numericals.
#2 Failure Bottleneck
Mathematics: 41,717 Fails
37.9% failure incidence; Chapter 12 geometrical theorems accounted for 45% of lost marks.
Safest Passing Subject
Islamiat: 94.2% Pass
Lowest failure incidence across the entire 125,000+ candidate testing cohort in 2025.
Chemistry
CHE-I
42,517
33.75% of examinees failed (57.52% pass rate).
Difficulty: Very High
Mathematics (Compulsory)
MC-I
41,717
33.11% of examinees failed (58.32% pass rate).
Difficulty: Very High
Physics
PHY-I
33,224
26.37% of examinees failed (66.81% pass rate).
Difficulty: High
English (Compulsory)
EC-I
26,398
20.95% of examinees failed (79.12% pass rate).
Difficulty: High
Islamiat (Compulsory)
ISL
23,882
18.96% of examinees failed (80.91% pass rate).
Difficulty: Moderate
Urdu (Compulsory)
UC-I
19,269
15.29% of examinees failed (84.75% pass rate).
Difficulty: Moderate
Computer Science
CSE-I
17,373
13.79% of examinees failed (76.59% pass rate).
Difficulty: Moderate
Tarjuma-tul-Quran
THQ-I
16,790
13.33% of examinees failed (86.58% pass rate).
Difficulty: Moderate
General Mathematics (Arts)
GMC-I
10,199
8.1% of examinees failed (61.06% pass rate).
Difficulty: High
General Science
GS-I
8,164
6.48% of examinees failed (68.83% pass rate).
Difficulty: Moderate
Biology
BIO-I
6,940
5.51% of examinees failed (77.63% pass rate).
Difficulty: Moderate