Dipak Sharma, spokesperson of the Ministry, informed that the decision was taken to ensure that class days in schools and universities do not get reduced in view of the government's decision to grant two-day, Saturday and Sunday, public holidays a week.
The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology had issued a circular last month asking all schools across the country to conduct final examinations and publish results of last academic session by mid-May and start new academic session after that.
The SEE exam, which was physically suspended due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) epidemic, has been conducted in the physical presence of students after two years.
Ambassador Hou said so while responding to a query as to the implementation status of the grant assistance of 3 billion RMB announced during the state visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping
Bhaktapur, Apr. 21 (RSS): The entire preparations have been completed for the Secondary Education Examination (SEE), 2078 BS scheduled to kick off from 8:00 am on April 22, tomorrow simultaneously across the country.It may be noted that the National Examinations Board had recognized schools’ internal assessments of students for SEE results of two consecutive previous years (2076 and 2077 BS) due to COVID-19 crisis. But the SEE for the academic year 2078 BS (2021-22) is taking place with the physical presence of students. Board Chair Mahashram Sharma said general health protocols are to be followed in the exam halls. He said all districts have already received materials required for conducting the exams including question papers and answer sheets. Controller of SEE Examination, Arjun Rayamajhi informed RSS that there were 2,007 exam centers for SEE across the country. A total of 514,967 students: 257,053 girls and 157,914 boys from 11,615 schools will be attending the exam towards the regular category. Likewise, 11,454 students will be sitting in the exam for grade improvement that has been halted since the past two years and 14,564 students towards technical streamline will be appearing in the exam. This time, the least 43 SEE students are from Manang. Similarly, 20 students from a school operated by a Nepali in Japan will be sitting in the exam.