KATHMANDU, March 28 -- This year's Secondary Education Examination (SEE) commenced today. The exam will run till April 9.

On the first day of the exam, examinees are sitting for the compulsory English subject examination. The exam began at 8AM and will conclude at 11AM.

A total of 504,414 examinees have registered for the exam. This includes 250,772 female students, 253,627 male students and 15 students from sexual and gender minority backgrounds from 10,806 both public and private schools. The examination is being conducted across 2,064 designated examination centers nationwide.

Students are required to obtain a minimum of 35 percent in theory and 40 percent in practical exams starting this year. This differs from the previous SEE exa...