Bhaktapur, April 1: All preparations for this year’s Secondary Education Examination (SEE) have completed.
Examination Controller at National Examination Board, Tuk Raj Adhikari said all preparation to start this year’s SEE at 1,966 exam centres across the country including one centre in Japan from 8:00 am tomorrow have completed.
“We are confident that the exam will take place in all districts in a smooth and peaceful manner. We request students to sit for the exam with confidence,” he mentioned.
A total of 512,421 students in Nepal and 23 students from an examination centre in Japan are appearing for this year’s SEE concluding on April 12.
Of the examinees—257,613 are female, 254,807 male and seven from others category. A total of 441,566 students are sitting for regular examination while 70,855 students for grade increment.
Adhikari shared that 82,487 students from Koshi Province, 90,243 students from Madhes Province, 109,513 students from Bagmati province, 43,972 students from Gandaki Province, 91,802 students from Lumbini Province, 39,769 students from Karnali Province and 54,635 students from Sudurpaschim Province are appearing for the SEE.
The first day features exam for the Compulsory English on April 2 followed by Compulsory Nepali on April 3, Compulsory Mathematics on April 5, Science on April 6, Social Study on April 7, all subjects of optional (I) on April 8 and all subjects of optional (II) on April 9 as well as all subjects of technical stream from April 10-12.
The NEB has prohibited the group monitoring of SEE this year. He added that separate question papers have been printed in seven provinces for SEE and dispatched to all districts.
Security personnel would be mobilized at each exam centre based on the necessity as determined by district examination committee. In case of students with special abilities and disabilities, additional time and writing assistant would be provided as per the nature of disabilities. Additional 90 minutes and writing assistant of Grade 9 would be allowed for such students.
Results to be published in a month
As per the instruction from Prime Minister Balendra Shah, the Board is going to publish the results within a month. Though the instruction was to publish the results in 15 days, the Board said that it will not be able to publish the results within 15 days due to busy work schedules and technical reasons.
Earlier, the Board had submitted a schedule to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to publish the results within 45 days.
This year, arrangements have been made for examiners and verifiers to check the answer sheets at the examination center on the same day of the subject where the exam is held and send the students’ mark sheets to the Education Development and Coordination Unit.
Accordingly, the Unit has made arrangements to send the mark sheets to the Examination Controller’s Office at the specified time.
