Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has urged school principals to identify the causes behind the non-graded results in the Secondary Education Examination (SEE).
KMC Deputy Mayor Sunita Dangol made this request to the heads of schools, recognizing the principals as capable leaders of community schools. She emphasized the need to investigate the reasons behind the non-graded SEE outcomes.
Speaking with principals from schools that have consistently failed to deliver expected results over the past three years and where more than 50 percent of students received non-graded results this year, she expressed concern over leadership and accountability.
“This is why we are now looking into leadership,” she said. “If all stakeholders come together with a shared vision, we can solve any problem. Let’s spend the next month teaching the non-graded students and work toward improving the results. After that, we can thoroughly review all the issues, analyze the skills and capacities, and develop further programs accordingly.”
During the discussion, KMC Education Officer Keshav Gyawali shared several possible reasons for poor SEE performance, such as a weak relationship between principals and teachers, lack of connection between students and teachers, unfavorable home environments, students being involved in labor alongside their studies, and lack of parental control.
In response, the participating principals committed to conducting a month-long additional class and making continued efforts to encourage students in their studies. They acknowledged that poor results in some cases were due to shared responsibility among schools, parents, and students.
In the SEE 2081 (2024), a total of 4,056 students from 58 community schools under KMC participated. Among them, 956 students received non-graded results and will have to sit for a re-examination.
Of the passed students, 789 achieved a GPA between 3.61 and 4.00, including 17 who secured a perfect 4.00 GPA. In comparison, only 545 students had scored within the same GPA range the previous year, indicating an increase of 244 high-achieving students this year.
