KATHMANDU, May 4: The National Examination Board (NEB) announced that it has completed all preparations for the Grade 12 exams, which begin simultaneously across the country this morning. NEB Chairperson Mahashram Sharma said the stage was ready and urged all students to take their exams with confidence.
The exams run from 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM and will continue until May 16. The NEB has designated 1,591 examination centers, 1,590 in Nepal and one in Japan. Sharma said the federal capital of Kathmandu has the highest number of centers at 162, while the remotely mountainous districts of Manang and Mustang each have one each.
The NEB has deputed an equal number of chief and assistant invigilators at every exam center to conduct the exams, with 2,000 additional staff mobilized at the centers. It has assigned at least one office assistant to each exam center. The government has deployed about 20,000 security personnel across the country.
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NEB Chairperson Mahashram Sharma said 395,908 regular students, about half or 197,033 of them girls, are sitting for the exams. An additional 115,617 partial examinees are also participating, bringing the total to 511,525.
This year, only 45 students from Manang are taking the exams, the lowest in the country, while Kathmandu has the highest number with 68,133 examinees. Controller of Examinations Krishna Prasad Sharma said the board has arranged special support for students with hearing and visual impairments, other forms intellectual disabilities, and other conditions.
The NEB has arranged for students in prisons and juvenile correction centers to take their exams. It will allow entry into exam centers only to individuals authorized by the District Examination Coordination Committee or the Controller of Examinations. If anyone fails to maintain exam standards, the board will immediately replace the chief invigilator, assistant invigilator, or examiner.
Only the chief invigilator may carry a mobile phone inside the exam center during the exam period. The board has strictly banned examinees from bringing mobile phones, smartwatches, or other electronic devices into the exam hall, except for calculators that do not contain stored documents.
If authorities catch teachers, staff, invigilators, or examinees carrying prohibited items like mobile phones during searches or monitoring, they will seize the items and take legal action under Section 17 (1) (a) ‘f’ of the Education Act, 2028 BS (1971) for breaching exam protocols.
On the first day of the exams, students will sit for tests in Compulsory English, Sanskrit Composition, Buddhist Studies, and Urdu Grammar. According to the NEB, regular and partial examinees from the general and traditional streams (registration numbers beginning with 78, 79, 80, and 81) and from the technical stream (starting with 79, 80, and 81) will take part in the exams.
