Wagle attributes the deteriorating performance to the tendency among teachers and students that no one fails in letter grading system. The government adopted letter grading system last year. The endorsement of the eighth amendment to the Education Act-1972 restructured the education system, making Grade 12 the final year of the school education and scrapping the SLC. The letter grading system of evaluation, however, allows students to pursue higher education irrespective of how badly they have performed, bar some cases. Those getting below 1.6 GPA will have to pursue technical courses, while those willing to study humanities in Grade 11 must score GPA above 1.6 and need a D plus in Social Studies. Therefore, Social Studies is the “pass” benchmark for students to study in the regular stream. As many as 106,464 (23.89 percent of total examinees) couldn’t secure the “pass” grades, meaning they either have to take the test again to increase their grade or pursue technical course. The results show the students performed poorly in Compulsory Mathematics as 207,076 (around 46.47 percent of the total examinees) have got D or E, followed by Science with 194,791 (43.70 percent) getting D and E. Similarly, 149,029 students failed to get “pass” grades in English. Wagle catalogues four issues for improving quality of school education. Firstly we need quality teachers, he said. “We must ensure student-centric teaching-learning activities, revision in the curriculum and continuous assessment,” he added.
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