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The School Leaving Certificate (quickly understood as SLC and understood in Nepali as prabeshika parikshha) is a nationally administered and kept an eye on high-school-matriculation examination in Nepal. The School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examination was first presented in Nepal in 1934 and the Durbar High School which was operated specifically to educated the kids of the judgment authoritarian Rana dynasty in Nepal became the very first school to take part in the SLC tests. SLC, the shortened type of School Leaving Certificate is termed to be the IRON GATE in the lives of lots of students. Students get ready for months to appear in the last examination happening around Chaitra of Nepali Calender every year and anticipate to have excellent numbers in their SLC results with marksheet. With an overall of 8 subjects and total marks of 800, students formerly used to obtain their result in portion and division. Beginning with the SLC result 2072, students will now discover their result in grades as the OCE believes the modification will have much better aspects in shaping the career of students.
Students get this credentials after finishing a 10-year long secondary schooling system and taking part in and passing a series of last board examinations. The SLC exam, also referred to as iron-gate due to its importance and trouble, is undoubtedly regarded as one of the most vital and most challenging assessments in Nepal. The examination is carried out by the Office of the Controller of Examinations, a government company of Nepal federal government's Ministry of Education. As of 2015, the Government of Nepal is preparing to ditch the conventional grading system of pass-fail and various departments and is reported to be taking an effort to introduce a brand-new grading system that ranks students from A to D, without a failing grade. The SLC is also famous for its high profile board toppers and well-known due to a number of incidences of suicides dedicated by not successful students in the consequences of each year's result publication.
Jung Bahadur Rana established the Durbar High School, it was during Shree 3 Ranodipsing's period and out of Dhir Shamsher initiative that the school was broadened up to grade 10. The Rana rulers operating the Durbar High School supplied certifications to students that finished grade 10, their certificates were not recognized by foreign academic institutions. Due to this, the Durbar High School needed to get an association with an internationally recognized scholastic organization.
In 1880, after the Durbar High School handled to make a handle the University of Calcutta in Kolkata, India, the very first batch of Nepali students went to appear in SLC-eqivalent entryway exams in the university. The government bore all the expenses of the students' travel and lodging and Dhir Shamsher's 2nd kid Khanga Shamsher was one of the examinees to attend the examinations. Khanga Shamsher couldn't pass the exams, but received a medal anyway because he was a student from the Rana household. Dhir Shamsher's another son, Chandra Shamsher, was the very first Nepali to pass the SLC-equivalent entrance exams of the Calcutta University. Some other popular names to pass the exam were Shriniwas Giri, Kedarnarshingh Rana, Balban Singh Pradhan and Asthaman Rajbhandari. The Durbar High School's affiliation with the Calcutta University and this kind of SLC examination lasted for 44 years till 1917. However, since the number of students were growing each year and logistical in addition to monetary problems were enhancing, the Nepal government asked the Calcutta University to develop an exam centre in Kathmandu. The university rejected the request. As an option, a comparable request was made to Patna University which accepted the offer to develop an exam centre in Kathmandu and certified recently developed Tri-Chandra College as one of its units.
Though in 1934 the SLC examination, in concept, came under the control of Nepal government's Department of Education, still the examinations activities were run and supervised by the Patna University authorities. Ultimately starting 1946, Nepal can performing the SLC examinations itself and since then hundreds of thousands of Nepali students have actually appeared in the SLC tests. With its long history, authority and appeal, the SLC examination system has actually gone through a significant reforms over time.
The SLC is not an standardized test and students have to go to examinations for 8 topics which are of 100 marks each. Passing grade for each subject is 32. Students that secure more than 80% of full mark get a Distinction grade whereas students that protect minimum 60% to 79% got a First Division label in their mark-sheet. SLC examinations are organized typically during the very first month of Nepali calendar, Baishak, and students typically go to one subject-exam per day and subjects like Science and English also involve useful and oral tests. Traditionally, students were asked concerns from their subject books of grade 9 and 10, but after a recent reform, nowadays students address concerns just from Grade 10. SLC examination and result publication both get nationwide limelights in Nepal.
SLC Result s traditionally released by the government-owened nationwide broadsheet Gorkhapatra, nowadays SLC outcomes are released mainly online after 2-3 months of preliminary exam dates. In the present system, if students fail approximately 2 topics, they are allowed to attend quickly arranged supplemental examinations, which are likewise known an compartment exams. They have to retake whole examinations the list below year if they have failed more than 2 tests. They are excused from taking a school test or sent-up exam. That is why these students are also called excused students.
The SLC examination system has been criticized by educationists in Nepal for several years for a number reasons. First, since the exam is varied and extremely tough, numerous Nepali students do not pass it. SLC conclusion rates specifically in government-funded public schools and among rural parts of Nepal has been consistently low. There are cases of suicides or suicide attempts after each yearly SLC result is published.
The SLC exam is likewise slammed for the unhealthy competition it has produced in Nepal's education sector. After every SLC result is published, students that get exceptionally high scores are allured by huge private colleges in Nepal and they are essentially 'purchased' to work as marketing material for them. The system of stating board topper caused comparable unhealthy competitors and the government has actually prohibited the practice because 2005 after 79 years.