When looking at the actual change in education scores over the previous year (figure 1), however, some interesting trends emerge. The biggest improvements have occurred in the performance of Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab, where there has been broad based improvements in enrollment, student achievement and survival to 5th grade. Balochistan has, however, seen a slight deterioration away from parity in its gender parity score. Each one of these provinces has moved up one rank in the provincial rankings.