Kathmandu, June 16 -- Around 1,000 students who sat for the Secondary Education Examination (SEE) have had their answer sheets go missing, affecting the publication of results for re-evaluation.

According to the National Examination Board, answer sheets of about 1,000 students who applied for rechecking could not be found. This has delayed the publication of re-evaluation results. Examination Controller Tukraj Adhikari said 33,887 students had applied for rechecking, of whom results for 31,855 have been published.

The board said the results of around 2,335 students were still pending. However, officials clarified that the higher figure includes cases where results were marked as "missing" for various reasons and instances where the same...