KATHMANDU: The National Examination Board (NEB), Sanothimi Bhaktapur is preparing to unveil results of Grade 12 within this week.

NEB said that it was now verifying the answer sheets of the students after completing the data entry work.

Prof. Dr. Chandramani Poudel, chairperson of the NEB, said that though the board had started working towards making the results out by December 31, that could not happen as so as many schools were yet to send the answer sheets of their students, the Rising Nepal reported.

Poudel added that schools had given marks at their whims and not based on merit off students because they were authorized to conduct examinations themselves and because of that they needed to re-verify details sent by schools.

Some schools have even sent hand-written marks, which is undesirable, he said.

Though the NEB had trained school management on the proper way of entering the marks into the website, many of them failed to comply with that.