Nepal’s class 12 pass rate jumps 8.58 points as NEB publishes results in 40 days

The results of the School Leaving Certificate Examination (SLCE), commonly known as the Class 12 board exams, have shown an improvement of 8.58 percentage points compared to last year. In the examinations held from April 27 to May 10, a total of 69.75 percent of students received grades. Last year, the figure stood at 61.17 percent.

“There has been an improvement in this year’s results, an increase of 8.58 percent over last year,” says Jang Bahadur Aryal, Member Secretary of the National Examination Board (NEB). “We had provided training from question paper preparation all the way through to evaluation.”