Office of the Controller of Examination (OCE) is set to publish this year's SLC results at 12.30 pm this afternoon.

According to Bishnu Bahadur Dware, Exam Controller, the results will be announced amidst a formal program from the Sanothimi-based hall of Education Department in Bhaktapur. A meeting of the Examination Board is taking place this morning a head of the results to be formally announced.

The board meeting has to endorse the results prior to announcement.

Over 574,000 students had appeared in the board exams that were held from March 19 to 29.

As many as 326,214 students appeared as regulars whereas 145,183 sat as exempted ones in the exams.

For the first time, the technical subject examinees will receive their results under the new grading system.

Some 32,88 students of technical subjects appeared in the SLC, 2,037 of whom were boys and 1,252 girls.

Although the office had initially predicted a two week's delay in publishing the results due to massive April 25 earthquake, it managed to speed up preparations in the last one month.

For the first time in the history of SLC exams, girls outnumbered boys as examinees.

source: republica,19 june 2015