Kathmandu, July 6 -- Nishan Gautam recently sat for his Secondary Education Examinations from a private school in Katari in Udaypur. He passed with 2.6 Grade Point Average (GPA). While the results weren't what he'd expected, he convinced himself that he still had grades 11 and 12 to prove his potential.

Gautam left his hometown and came to the Capital hoping to study at Prasadi Academy in Lalitpur. But to his dismay, the school refused him a chance to even sit for the entrance exams, saying he needed a minimum GPA of 3.5 to qualify for the test.

"The response from the school was a disappointment to him," Som Pahadi, Gautam's brother-in law, told the Post. "Don't these schools need to follow the law of the land?"

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