June 30, 2006

The Office of the Controller of Examinations (OCE) unveils new systems for helping students gain easy access to SLC results

By SAHISHNU POUDYAL

The Office of the Controller of Examination (OCE) has added another website for the convenience of the SLC students seeking their result. This time, the Office is going to give results on its own website www.soce.gov.np. Earlier, the OCE used to publish its results through the websites of various offices like Educational Department, Educational Ministry and Nepal Telecom. This time, however, in addition to the existing websites belonging to Education Department (www.doe.gov.np), Education Ministry (www.moe.gov.np) and Nepal Telecom (www.ntc.net.np), the OCE has opened another website for the benefit of the students. The results will be published in the websites immediately after it is released.

Furthermore, the students can also know about their results by dialing 1600 on their telephone set. The Nepal Telecom has installed a system whereupon they can provide information about the result to 300 persons at a time. These services have been launched for the ease of the SLC students. In the past, the only source for the students used to be Gorkhapatra daily paper. These additions will assist them a lot. Moreover, the NTC is also in the process of providing results through cell phones.

Now there are altogether four websites from where the students can benefit from. “This is actually targeted for the students out of valley. They had to wait long time to see their results due to the lack of access to Gorkhapatra on time. We think that this system of giving results on the websites and through telephone will benefit them a lot,” said Gajendra Lal Pradhan, SLC exam controller. “This time NTC has also increased their capacity. Last year they could serve only 60 students at a time but this year, their capacity has increased to 300,” he added. This is five times greater than the previous time. According to Pradhan, this number was increased because of higher access of telephone in villages. If the examinees do not have telephone in their village, they can still go to district headquarters for the purpose. Because almost every district headquarters has at least one telephone set, they may not need to wait long to see their results.

“Our seniors, before six or seven years back, needed to wait for Gorkhapatra to see their results. They had no option but to visit the office of Gorkhapatra Sansthan and struggle to buy the paper as there would be huge crowd of students. And more often than not, the Gorkhapatra of that day carrying SLC result would not be delivered on the right time because of huge demand and limited supply. Some time they were forced to pay Rs 100 to 200 to buy a single paper. Thankfully, now there are no such hassles. We are lucky that we can see our results staying at our own home using internet or dialing telephone,” said Archana Thapa, a SLC examinee, who is keenly awaiting her result, which is expected to be announced in a week or two. “The increased number of websites, and the convenience provided by NTC is definitely going to help us because if we cannot open one website then we can go for another because we have got many options now.”

Like Thapa, students from outside the valley are also encouraged with the availability of new services. “It is more advantageous for us than the students of the capital because in our village we get newspaper two days after they are published. However, we have telephone set at our district headquarters, which is not too far from our village. From the last four, five years, we don’t have to worry about finding about SLC results,” said Samir Shah a boy from Terai who appeared in the SLC this year.

Thanks to new technologies, 3,32,181 students like Archana and Samir this year are going to be benefited. Last year 3,13,216 students appeared in the SLC examination. Out of the regular examinees only 38.72 percent students had passed last year.