The Office of the Controller of Examination (OCE) is preparing to publish the results of this year's School Leaving Certificate (SLC) exams within the first week of Nepali month of Ashad (June 15-21).

Talking to THT over phone, Deputy Examination Controller Anup Charan Shrestha said that the OCE is making preparations to release the results in another two weeks. "The exact date, however, has not been fixed yet," he said. "The targeted time could differ by a few days."

Altogether 566,085 students had taken the SLC exams that started on March 20.

Of the total 566,085 students appearing SLC exams this year, 419,352 were under the regular category and 146,733 under the exempted category.

Kathmandu had the largest number of examinees (33,085) and Manang the lowest (88).

As many as 1,836 exam centres were set up all across the country for the examinations.

SLC is considered as the iron gate of school level studies.

Last year's data
The pass percentage in last year's SLC examination was 41.57.

Of the total 511,165 students, only 176,253 examinees, including both from the regular and exempted categories, had passed.

A total of 167,935 students of the 403,936 who appeared in the regular category got through. Of them, 16,824 secured distinction (80 percent and above), 76,165 bagged the first division, 69,830 passed in the second division and 5,016 secured third division marks.

In the previous year, pass percentage was 46.16 percent.

source: the himalayan times,8 june 2014