KATHMANDU, March 16: The Office of the Controller of Examinations (OCE) has introduced a “Control List System” in a bid to minimize errors in the results of the school leaving certificate (SLC) examinations.
Organizing the press conference to brief on the preparations for the board exam scheduled to be held from March 19-30, Exam Controller Bishnu Bahadur Dware said the details of each examinee appearing in the board exam will be posted on the office's website a week after the examinations.
Generally, the result of those students who have technical error in names, date of birth or subject are categorized as withheld, absent or missing. “The control list would help students look for the details themselves and inform the OCE to rectify the mistakes,” he added.
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As many as 574,685 students (426,214 regulars and 145,183 exempted) are expected to appear in the SLC examinations to begin from Thursday. For the first time, technical subject examinees will receive their result under the grading system. As many as 3,288 students of technical subjects are appearing in SLC. Of them, 2,037 are boys and 1,251 are girls.
More girls are appearing for the first time in SLC exams this year. A total of 213,710 girl students and 212,504 boy students are expected to appear in the exams this year.
The office has set up 1,862 exam centers supervised by an equal number of superintendents and 2,440 assistant superintendents. The superintendent's allowance has be increased to Rs 800 from Rs 500 earlier. Likewise, 27,930 security personnel deployed for SLC will be receiving Rs 150 each as daily allowance, officials said.
Special arrangements for acid attack victims
The nearest exam centre from Bir Hospital will be responsible for ensuring that the acid attack victims Sangita Magar and Sima Basnet, undergoing treatment since February 22, appear in the SLC exams from their hospital bed. The OCE took the decision following a cabinet order on Friday.
The superintendent of Durbar High School will make arrangements for the acid attack victims to take their SLC exams, said Dware. “In case the victims are able to speak, they can take the help of a scribe to write their papers,” he mentioned.
Similarly, the office has also decided to allow visually-impaired examinees to take the help of a ninth grader to write their papers. Until now, the government had allowed only eighth graders to help the visually impaired examinees to take their tests.
