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The present study aimed to assess the male and female students’ scores in literal reading comprehension at secondary school level in the English language. The students of grade 10 were the target population of the study. A sample consisting of 440 students (211 male and 229 female) was selected from secondary schools of the Southern Punjab, Pakistan. A literal reading comprehension test was developed focusing on two sub-skills of literal comprehension such as identifying supporting detail and main idea from the text in line with Barrett’s Taxonomy of Reading Comprehension (BTRC). T-test was applied by using SPSS version XX to make a comparison of male and female students’ scores. The findings of this study revealed that students’ scores in identifying supporting details were better as compared to the scores in identifying the main idea. The analysis, based on t-value, revealed no significant difference between the scores of male and female students. Therefore, it was recommended that the sub-skill; identifying main idea from the text should be improved.    

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