Bijeesha Budhathoki
May 14, 2021
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File: Children, masked, attend a class at their school amid the coronavirus infection risk, in Kathmandu.
Until the third week of April, Sibesh Yadav, a 10th grader at Viswa Niketan Secondary School in Kathmandu, was preparing hard for his final examinations (Secondary Education Examinations) scheduled to be held from May 27. But, as soon as another round of lockdown began in Kathmandu to curb the coronavirus spread, he began to doubt if the exams would take place as planned.
His doubt got confirmed with the National Examinations Board indefinitely postponing the exams earlier this week.
“I am upset with this news. Or else, the board could have cancelled the SEE entirely and certified the students based on the internal evaluation carried out by the respective schools like they did last year,” he says, “We are in a more critical stage than last year’s students. At least, they got to study the whole course physically and prepare