Scrapping rigid subject groupings at the matric and intermediate levels is a decisive step towards aligning Pakistan's education system with the flexibility of the Cambridge model. The Inter-Board Coordination Commission's proposal to replace entrenched streams — pre-medical, pre-engineering, humanities — with a subject-based pathway clearly indicates a growing recognition that academic ability cannot be neatly boxed at the age of 15 or 17.

Students who, at a young age, choose non-science subjects and are issued........

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