By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, May 29: The National Examination Board (NEB) has stated that it will decide on the examinations of Secondary Education Examination (SEE) and Grade XII after evaluating the pandemic situation in coming days.
Chandra Mani Poudel, chairman of the NEB, said that the board was not in a position to decide on module and time of examinations at the moment because of the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic.
However, the board will pave the way for the examinations soon after consulting with health experts and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST), Poudel told The Rising Nepal.
The board has also received the recommendations of the stakeholders from across the country about the possible examinations modules. A taskforce, led by Baikuntha Aryal, director general of Centre for Education and Human Resource Development (CEHRD), which was formed by the board to recommend the examination module of both examinations in current situation, has submitted its report on Thursday.
The taskforce was formed after the board was forced to cancel the examinations, scheduled to start from Thursday, amid the resurging coronavirus cases. The NEB will decide on the matter after evaluating the pandemic situation, Poudel said.
He added that in-person examinations would be possible if the situation returned to normalcy in coming days and then urged the parents to be patient until further notice.
About 400,000 students of Grade XII and about 500,000 students of Grade X are preparing for their final examinations.