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Kathmandu Tuesday April 24, 2001 Baishakh 11, 2058.
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SLC Computer exam cancelled
By Nitya Nanda Timsina
KATHMANDU, April 23- What would the authorities do after
aquestion paper distributed to thousands of students sitting for a big examination turns
out to have been lifted straight from a model question in circulation in the market?
Cancel the exam.
Education authorities today reached exactly the decision,
after a question paper distributed to School Leaving Certificates (SLC) examinees sitting
for the exam of Computer Science appeared to be a word-by-word copy from a book of model
test papers available in the market.
Monday was the last day of the SLC test, the last examination
of the country’s high school education. Chief of the Government’s Controllers of
Education Sahadev Bhatta said late Monday that a closed-door emergency meeting held at the
Ministry of Education and Sports decided to cancel the examination. The examination will
be held at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 8 (Baishak 25).
Authorities were shocked to discover the question paper of
Computer distributed to the examinees a word-by-word copy of a model question printed in
SLC Model Test Papers With Answers: Computer Science, an Ekta Books Publication by RC
Khanal.
When contacted, R.C. Khanal said that it was the sole
responsibility of the Controller’s Office, to cross check. "The book appeared in
the market more than a month ago; and it was the administration which set the questions.
It’s their first and foremost responsibly," he added.
Prashanna Raj Shrestha, a student of GEMS school said he was
more than happy to answer a "pretty much familiar set of questions. If only the
evaluators would check my paper without prejudices, I would surely have passed with
distinction."
Although 23 districts have introduced Computer Science in
their high school curriculum, only the students from Kathmandu valley had access to the
guidebook released around March.
It was not immediately clear what moves are forthcoming to
probe into the incident which, educationists call ‘a strange one’ in the more
than seven decade old history of SLC examination, which is considered as an iron gate of
Nepal’s high school education system.
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