Over 58 percent of 274,000 regular examinees who had appeared in this year’s School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examinations have passed the ‘iron gate.’

According to the SLC results, which were published late night on Thursday, 58.64 percent of regular examinees have passed the exams along with 31.5 percent of the exempted ones. In total, there were over 352,000 students who appeared this year’s SLC.

Last year, only 46.51 percent of regular examinees had passed the SLC test.

As per the Office of the Controller of Examination (OCE), Sanothimi, 56,153 students have passed in first division; 89,662 in second division and 7789 in third division.

Likewise, over 7000 students have passed securing distinction marks. Like in the past year, the OCE has not published the names of top ten students.

The results of this year’s SLC will be published in daily newspapers including Gorkhapatra, The Kathmandu Post and Annapurna Post. They will also be made available in websites of the ministry of education and department of education ( www.moe.gov.np; www.doe.gov.np), among others. Likewise, they can also be availed through SMS to 1400 number of Nepal Telecom.

This year’s SLC had been held on April 4-12. This year the Ministry of Education held the examination based on the curriculum of grade 10 alone – unlike previous years when the exams were based on curricula of grade 9 and 10.