KATHMANDU: The Secondary Education Examination (SEE) has begun today (Friday).
The SEE will be conducted from March 31 to April 12 across a total of 2,037 exam centers, according to the National Examination Board (NEB).
Examinations Controller Bishnu Narayan 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 course 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 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 have been mobilized at the exam centers throughout the country for conducting the SEE.
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