January 24: The National Examinations Board this year has decided to conduct the Secondary Education Examination (SEE) and publish its results in accordance with the Letter Grading Directive 2078 BS.    
The Board has scheduled the SEE for the year 2080 BS from upcoming March 28 to April 9.    
Board Chair Dr Mahashram Sharma said that grade ten students this year will be sitting for the SEE as per the new curriculum and the results will be published based on the Letter Grading Directives 2078 BS.     
As per the new system, each SEE student is required to obtain 35 in theory subjects of 100 full marks to be qualified for pursuing higher studies. Any student failing to secure 35 in theory will not be eligible for getting enrolled in class 11 and will find the result under the Non-Graded category.    
In such situation, the chance exams for two subjects will be allowed for three times.    
A total of 489,000 students, both regular and towards grade improvement, will be appearing for the SEE, according Nandalal Paudel, SEE examinations controller.    
Grading system has been already implemented in the exams of grade 11 and 12.

The Board has intensified the preparations for the SEE.    
The printing of question papers, preparations of other logistics and fixing of examination centers are the parts of the preparations. -- RSS