This year’s Grade 11 examination conducted by the Higher Secondary Education Board (HSEB) concluded successfully on Wednesday.

Students suffered during the 10-day-long exam due to frequent bands called by various ethnic groups and political parties. They were forced to walks for hours to reach exam centres.

Altogether 462,015 students participated in the examination. Among them, 286,133 students—151,349 boys and 134,784 girls—attended the test in regular category, while 175,882—80,851 boys and 95,031 girls—were the partial examinees.

The HSEB has fixed 925 exam centres for the examinees from 3,338 higher secondary schools. HSEB has deployed 925 superintendents, 1,456 assistant superintendants, 1,032 observers, 14,318 invigilators, 11,100 security personnel, 925 employees and 1,850 assistants have been deployed to successfully hold the exam.

To control cheating, the Board for the first time has arranged two sets of question papers for every subject.

“Despite frequent bandas the exam concluded successfully,” said Examination Controller Durga Prasad Aryal. “Now will we put our all efforts to bring out the results at the earliest,” he added.

source: The Kathmandu Post,23 may 2012