A total of 485,586 students are appearing in the secondary education examinations (SEE), which started on March 22. The exams are being held simultane­ously at 1,956 exam centers across the country.

 

The exams, which are held at the end of grade 10, span 13 days, start­ing with the English paper on the first day. Arrangements have also been made for practical examina­tions in all compulsory subjects except mathematics.

 

Following the eighth amendment to the Education Act-1972, the erst­while School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examinations, were scrapped and replaced by the SEE last year.

 

To conduct the SEE examina­tions, some 64,762 people are being deployed this year. AGENCIES