Apart from the importance the annual School Leaving Certificate examinations holds in the country's education system with almost half a million students taking part in it, every year the educational extravaganza also brings to light some of the quirky side of Nepali society - pregnant students, cheating teachers and "adult education".
Reports coming in say that a girl student in a remote district gave birth to a child while she sat for her English paper on the first day of SLC examinations today.
The unidentified student from Baitadi district went into labor pain soon after the exams started at 8 am and to the utter surprise of her fellow examinees and supervisors gave birth to a child at the exam center.
The report said both the mother and the newly-born baby were doing fine.
However, it is not known whether the SLC board will make another arrangement for the new mother so that she could sit for her exams at a later date.
In another report, a teacher in Rautahat district assigned as an exam monitor was found helping SLC examinees cheat.
Bipin Prasad Pandey, a monitor at the exam center in Suvalal Higher Secondary School, was caught helping students by writing the answers to specific questions on the black board of the exam hall.
He has been handed over to the police and is awaiting action.
Meanwhile, police have arrested three fake examinees appearing in the ongoing School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examinations from different examination centres in Saptari district on Thursday.
The three people who were appearing in the SLC exams on behalf of other candidates have been kept at the District Police Office awaiting action, according to reports.
Similarly, four students of a school in Dolakha district, who were arrested on charges of engaging in vandalism, gave their examinations from the police custody itself.
And perhaps the most interesting of all the stories is the indomitable resolve shown by a middle-aged man from Mahottari district to pass the SLC exams despite failing in it for the last 22 years.
By sitting for the exams for the 23rd time this year, Bhagirath Yadav, 48, of Damhimadai VDC-8 may have set another record for appearing in the SLC examinations for the most number of times.
He had appeared for the SLC exams for the first time in the year 1987 from the Janata Secondary School in Dhamhimadai.
But despite failing to pass the exams continiously for the last 22 years, Yadav has not lost hope.
Initially, Yadav wanted to get a job in the postal department after passing the SLC exams.
But now he wants to work as a teacher after passing the SLC exams as he can no longer apply for the postal department job because of his age.
He told the state-owned news agency RSS that he is very hopeful that he will pass the SLC exams this year
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