Kathmandu: Secondary Education Examination (SEE) is taking place across the country from 8:00 am today.
The Chairperson of the National Examination Board, Mahashram Sharma shared, “All preparations for SEE have been completed. A virtual meeting was conducted on Thursday with all responsible bodies of all 77 districts for the same. We requested all to conduct the examinations in a peaceful, disciplined, and systematic manner.”
Sharma added all examination-related activities including designating invigilators at all examination centers, security arrangement, mobilization of human resources, and taking question papers and answer-sheet have been completed.
Examinations Controller Bishnu Narayan Shrestha said Province Examination Operation and Management Committee formed under the chairmanship of the Province Secretary in every province would operate, manage and monitor the examinations in the provinces remaining in the periphery of the Board’s directives.
The District Examination Coordination Committee formed comprising the Chief District Officer, and chiefs of security bodies in every district has completed all necessary tasks including designating invigilators in examination centers, and imparting orientation to stakeholders, he mentioned.
Around 500 thousand candidates
Controller of Examinations Shrestha said although 516 thousand 591 students studying in Grade 9 filled up the registration form for the SEE in 2022, a total of 484,227 filled up the exam form in grade 10. The number has decreased by 32 thousand 364 compared to the number of applicants in Grade 9.
The highest number of candidates are in Bagmati Province (106 thousand 959) and the lowest in Karnali Province (41,329). Around 15 thousand students will be taking the exams in the technical stream.
Similarly, 2982 students from 65 schools running courses in Sanskrit and 50 blind students are also appearing in the SEE this year. Students from 11 thousand 829 schools, including 7,200 community and 4,564 institutional schools are sitting in the SEE this year.
A total of 2037 exam centers have been designated for SEE. These include 2036 exam centers in 77 districts and one in Japan.
Seventy-eight thousand human resources will be mobilized at the exam centers throughout the country for conducting the SEE.
