Kathmandu, Sept. 18 -- In what looks like yet another example of policy inconsistency, the Curriculum Development Centre has revised its one-year-old decision regarding grade 11 examinations.

The Centre last year approved a curriculum framework for the school level, which envisioned that the Central Examination Board would conduct grade 10 and 12 examinations at the provincial and central levels, respectively, while the respective schools would hold class 11 tests on their own. The policy was supposed to be implemented from the current academic session.

The new provision was introduced in line with the eighth amendment to the Education Act in 2016 which restructured the school education in two categories-basic (grades one to eight) and ...