Officials say all possible safety measures have been adopted for the
largest assembly of people in the education sector since the Covid-19
pandemic hit the country.
Over 430,00 students are set to sit for in-person exams for grade
12 beginning Tuesday. This will be the largest-ever gathering of people in the
education sector since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country early this
year.
The exams are being conducted as over 1,500 new Covid-19
cases are being reported across the country everyday. With an additional 1,674
new cases reported on Saturday, the total number of cases has reached 218,639
with 1,305 deaths.
Officials at the National Examination Board say
they have made all preparations to conduct the exams safely, and examinees
need not worry about their safety. “Sanitiser will be provided to students at
every exam centre. Everyone will be masked properly and sitting arrangements
have been made with two meters of gap between examinees,”said Jung Bahadur
Aryal, spokesperson for the board.
“The number of exam centres has
been more than doubled compared to the previous year to minimise the crowd,”
Aryal told the Post.
All 4,105 higher secondary schools across the
country have been turned into examination centres this year. The number was
1,900 last year. This year, examinees will be allowed to sit for the exams at
schools they have been enrolled in while those that have gone to their
hometowns will be allowed to take the test at their nearest exam centre. Of
the 433,131 examinees, over 14,000 will be taking the exams from the schools
closest to them.
Aryal said that around two-third of the
examination centres will accommodate up to a 100 examinees. “Our focus will be
on schools with more than 100 students,” he said.
The board is
preparing to publish the results within two months.
The duration of
the exams have been shortened by half to 1.5 hours as their weightage has been
reduced by 60 percent.While students are to take the written exam for 40
percent of their final grades, another 40 percent will come from their grades
in 11 and the remaining 20 percent from evaluation by the schools.
Friday
was the last day for the schools to submit the marksheet of the internal
evaluations.
The board normally conducts the exams in May and
publishes results by October.
The Cabinet on October 5 allowed all
the boards, academic institutions, universities and other institutions to
conduct their exams. Following the Cabinet decision, boards and universities
have started conducting tests due for several months though there are no signs
that the threat of the pandemic will subside soon.
Along with the
grade 12 exams, universities are also starting in-person tests. The Office of
the Controller of the Examination at Tribhuvan University, Nepal’s oldest and
largest varsity, had decided to conduct the tests in the usual format starting
December 13.
Pushpa Raj Joshi, examination controller, said the
university is prepared to allow students to take their exams from an
affiliated college nearest to them. For instance, a student enrolled in a
college in Kathmandu or other cities can take his/her exams from a college in
their hometown. Over 415,000 students are currently enrolled in various
courses offered by the university.
Joshi said they have already
prepared software to register students from the districts where they are
currently living. The oldest university has around 1,100 constituent and
affiliated colleges, at least one in each district.
source: the
kathmandu post, 22 november 2020
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