SEE Result Statistics by Year: Pass Rate, GPA & NG Counts

The Secondary Education Examination (SEE), Nepal's Grade 10 board exam and the successor to the old School Leaving Certificate (SLC), is conducted by the National Examination Board (NEB) at Sanothimi, Bhaktapur. After each exam the NEB releases a result fact-sheet giving how many students appeared, how the grades were distributed, and how many were left Non-Graded (NG). This article compiles those official fact-sheets into a single dated timeline so the SEE pass rate by year can be compared on a like-for-like basis.

For the most recent cohort, SEE 2082 (exam held in Chaitra 2082, results published on 28 Baishakh 2083, 11 May 2026), the NEB certified grades for 284,160 of the 430,667 students in the regular result tabulation, a graded rate of 65.98%. A further 146,507 students were Non-Graded. This continued a two-year upward trend from 61.81% graded in SEE 2081 and 47.86% in SEE 2080.

A note on labels and dating: SEE cohorts are named by the Bikram Sambat (BS) year in which the exam is sat, but results appear a month or two later, sometimes in the following BS year, which is why aggregator sites disagree on whether the 2026 result is 'SEE 2082' or 'SEE 2083'. Throughout this page each cohort is named by its exam year and every figure is tagged with its publication date. The numbers here are a static, dated snapshot copied from NEB fact-sheets, not a live feed; always confirm an individual result at see.gov.np or neb.gov.np.

The four most recent SEE cohorts can be reconstructed cleanly from NEB fact-sheets, and in each case the published grade bands sum to the reported graded total, which is a useful internal check. Each row below lists the exam cohort, its result publication date, the number of examinees, the graded and Non-Graded counts, and the size of the top A+ band (GPA 3.60 to 4.00). Earlier cohorts are discussed narratively further down because their grade bands cannot be verified as tightly.

Read the graded rate as 'the share of regular examinees who received a full GPA rather than an NG'. It is the closest modern equivalent to the old SLC pass rate, but it is not identical, and the denominator matters: for SEE 2081 and 2082 the graded percentage is calculated against the regular tabulated examinees, while total participation including grade-increment (supplementary) re-sitters was higher, roughly 499,000 in 2081 and 512,421 in 2082.

SEE is graded on letter grades mapped to a Grade Point Average (GPA) on a 0 to 4 scale. The bands used on the result fact-sheets are A+ (GPA 3.60 to 4.00), A (3.20 to 3.60), B+ (2.80 to 3.20), B (2.40 to 2.80), C+ (2.00 to 2.40), C (1.60 to 2.00), D (1.20 to 1.60) and E (0.80 to 1.20). A student's overall GPA is the average of the grade points earned across all subjects, so a single very weak subject drags the whole GPA down.

'Non-Graded' (NG, in Nepali 'na-grade') is not a grade band. It marks a student who did not meet the minimum threshold to be graded, most commonly by scoring below the pass mark in one or more required subjects. An NG student's transcript shows NG rather than a GPA until they clear the shortfall through the grade-increment (supplementary) examination. Counting NG students, and reporting the graded rate as everyone else, is why 'how many students passed SEE' has a precise answer only once you fix the definition of pass.

Because NG sits outside the GPA scale, the year-by-year A+ to E distribution and the NG count together describe the full cohort. When the top A+ band grows while the NG count shrinks, as it did from 2080 through 2082, both the strongest and the weakest ends of the distribution are moving in a favourable direction at the same time.

The single most important caveat when reading an SEE timeline is that the grading rules themselves changed, so a falling or rising graded rate does not automatically mean learning got worse or better. For SEE 2078 and SEE 2079 the NEB had effectively suspended the Non-Graded provision, awarding a grade down to E to almost every student who sat the exam. Under those rules the 'pass rate' was close to universal and is not comparable with later years.

With SEE 2080 the NEB reinstated a firm minimum threshold: a candidate now had to secure at least the pass mark (grade D or above, around 35%) in every subject to be graded, and anyone falling short in even one subject was recorded as NG. That single rule change is why the 2080 graded rate reads as only 47.86% with 52.14% Non-Graded, a figure widely reported as a collapse but better understood as the return of a genuine pass bar after several lenient years.

Seen in that light, the recovery to 61.81% in 2081 and 65.98% in 2082 is the meaningful trend: with the tougher rule held constant across three cohorts, a larger share of students is clearing it each year. Students recorded as NG are not permanently failed, they can re-sit through the grade-increment exam; the 2080/81 supplementary round, for instance, was reported to pass roughly 57% of those who took it.

The A+ band (GPA 3.60 to 4.00) is the figure that trends and headlines most every result season, and it has climbed steadily across recent cohorts: 22,475 students in SEE 2079, 31,209 in SEE 2080, 48,177 in SEE 2081 and 48,392 in SEE 2082. The number of students securing a perfect 4.0 GPA is reported separately in some years, notably 186 in SEE 2080 and 540 in SEE 2081.

Two cautions apply when quoting the A+ count. First, the fact-sheets report the whole 3.60 to 4.00 band, which is much larger than the exact-4.0 group, so 'SEE A+ count' and 'number of students with 4.0 GPA' are different questions with very different answers. Second, provincial and district breakdowns are published separately; in SEE 2081, for example, Bagmati Province led on graded students. This page reports national totals only.

At the bottom of the distribution, the disappearance of the D and E bands from 2080 onward is the mirror image of the NG rule. In SEE 2079 tens of thousands of students sat in the D and E bands; from 2080 those same borderline students are recorded as NG instead, which is why the lowest populated band in 2080, 2081 and 2082 is C (1.60 to 2.00) with only single-digit or low counts.

Put together, the recent SEE series tells a two-part story. The headline graded rate fell sharply in 2080 purely because the NEB reintroduced a minimum pass threshold and the NG category, then rose in each of the next two years as more students met that fixed bar, reaching 65.98% in 2082. Anyone comparing 2082 against 2079 directly, without accounting for the rule change, will draw the wrong conclusion.

Total participation has also drifted: regular examinee counts moved from about 484,939 in 2079 to 464,785 in 2080, 438,896 in 2081 and 430,667 in 2082, even as total participants including re-sitters rose to 512,421 in 2082. Falling regular cohorts alongside rising total participation reflect both demographic shifts and the growing pool of grade-increment candidates, so per-year rates should be compared using a consistent denominator.

Finally, turnaround times are shortening. SEE 2082 results were published about 29 days after the exams ended, markedly faster than the traditional two-to-three-month wait, which is worth noting when comparing publication dates across years.

Every figure on this page is transcribed from the National Examination Board's per-year SEE result fact-sheets and press notices, cross-checked against national media reporting from The Kathmandu Post and myRepublica. Where a number could not be verified with a matching grade-band total, it has been left out rather than guessed; that is why the detailed table stops at SEE 2079 even though letter grading in the SLC/SEE system goes back further.

This is a dated snapshot, not a live result service. The most recent figures here are current to the SEE 2082 result published on 28 Baishakh 2083 (11 May 2026). Individual results, symbol-number lookups and any post-publication corrections should always be checked on the official portals see.gov.np and neb.gov.np, or via the NEB's SMS and IVR services on 1600.

The old School Leaving Certificate was renamed the Secondary Education Examination and shifted to the end of Grade 10 under Nepal's education reforms of the mid-2070s BS (around 2016 to 2017), with letter grading replacing the earlier pass/fail division system. Because grading conventions have changed more than once, cross-year comparisons are only safe within a period of stable rules, which for the modern NG era means SEE 2080 onward.