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Kohat Board 1st Year Result 2026: Why Only 27% of Students Passed

Published 15 October 2026 · BISE Kohat, HSSC Part-I (11th class) Annual-I 2026

When BISE Kohat declared its HSSC Part-I result on 21 September 2026, nearly three out of four students did not pass. The Commissioner of Kohat Division publicly voiced concern about the board’s intermediate results. We went through the board’s own result gazette (subject tables, group summaries and every institution’s figures) to find where the result collapsed. It was not one thing. It was maths and science, boys’ institutions, and a few districts in particular.

Kohat Board 1st Year Result 2026 at a Glance

For how to check your result by roll number or SMS, see our BISE Kohat 11th Class Result 2026 page. This article is about why the numbers came out the way they did.

Maths and Science Sank the Result

The board’s subject-wise table shows a sharp split. Language and Islamic subjects held up well. The science and maths papers that most Part-I students must take did not:

• Mathematics 24%
• Physics 38%
• Chemistry 43%
• Biology 43%
• Computer Science 65%
• Civics 72%
• English 74%
• Islamic Education 78%
• Mutaliae Quran-e-Hakeem 80%
• Urdu 86%

Source: BISE Kohat HSSC Annual-I 2026 gazette, “Subject Wise Pass Percentage — Part-I”. The board rounds to whole percentages.

Mathematics is the standout: 2,497 of 10,623 passed, so about 8,126 students now have a maths paper to clear. Physics, taken by almost every science student, was passed by only 38% (10,155 of 26,545). Compare Urdu at 86% and English at 74%. A candidate has to pass every paper to count as passed, so a single science failure is enough to drop out of the 27%.

Results by Group

The General / Computer Science group, mostly ICS students taking Maths, Physics and Computer Science, had the worst result: only 15.54% passed. Pre-Medical, the biggest group with 12,483 candidates, managed 27.77%. Humanities did best overall at 44%, largely thanks to girls’ colleges.

Girls Passed at Twice the Rate of Boys

Regular girls passed at 39.09%. Regular boys passed at 18.99%, roughly one in five. Girls were ahead in every single group:

The gap is widest in regular Humanities: 960 of 1,443 girls passed, against 68 of 416 boys. Our totals of the institution table point the same way. The 45 girls’ institutions passed 44.08% of their candidates, far above the board average.

Hangu and Orakzai Were Hit Hardest

The gazette has no district table, but every institution carries a code that identifies its district. Adding up the institution-wise summary by district gives this picture (regular candidates of listed institutions, 20,006 of the 22,728):

Hangu stands out: only 190 of 2,454 candidates from its 41 institutions passed, which is 7.74%. Orakzai, a merged tribal district, was at 12.38%. At the other end, Kurram (41.71%) and Kohat district itself (32.03%) did better than the board average.

55 Institutions Where No One Passed

The institution-wise summary lists 250 colleges and schools. In 55 of them, not a single Part-I candidate passed. Together they entered 1,464 students. Government and private institutions were level: government institutions passed 27.15% and the rest 26.19%. So this is not simply a public-versus-private story.

The strongest results among institutions with at least 100 candidates:

Cadet College Kohat passed 115 of its 118 candidates. Four of the seven strongest institutions are girls’ schools and colleges (three of them government-run), which shows the board’s weak average is not universal.

Those Who Passed, Passed Well

The result is polarised. Of the 5,334 passing candidates in the institution table, 2,150 (about 40%) earned an A1 or A grade, and only 137 scraped through with a D. The gazette still prints the older A1–E grade letters, with a 40% minimum in each paper:

• A1 (80% and above) 498
• A (70–79%) 1,652
• B (60–69%) 2,083
• C (50–59%) 964
• D (40–49%) 137

Our totals of the grade columns in the gazette’s institution-wise summary (regular candidates of listed institutions).

How Kohat Compares With Other KP Boards

Every KP board applied the same 40% pass mark in 2026. The difference is partly what each board puts in its headline. Peshawar and Mardan count students promoted to Part-II with a failed paper; Kohat reports only students who passed everything. Even among strict-pass boards, though, Kohat is far behind Bannu and Malakand. More on the promotion rule in our KP promotion policy explainer.

Kohat’s own 12th class result was weak too: 30.87% passed Part-II, declared the same day. Across both parts, 15,862 of 54,224 candidates passed (29.25%). The board also recorded 4,644 unfair-means (cheating) cases across the whole HSSC Annual-I exam and decided all of them.

If You Didn’t Pass: What to Do Next

• Find exactly which papers you failed. Your DMC shows every subject. You re-appear only in the papers below 40%, usually maths or a science.
• Re-totalling has closed. The gazette allowed 15 days from 21 September at Rs 1,500 per paper. If you applied, check the board’s portal for the outcome.
• Collect your DMC from your district camp office. These include GHSS No.1 Kohat, the EDO Office Hangu, GHSS Kalaya Orakzai, the BISE sub-office Parachinar, GDC Sadda and GHSS Karak.
• Prepare for the supplementary exam now. With maths at 24%, start with the subject that failed, not the whole syllabus. Watch bisekt.edu.pk for the supplementary schedule.
• Understand the grading. The 40% rule is explained in our grading system guide.

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