Postponing exams is not the solution

There are alternatives to physical exams. Authorities should be a little more creative in finding them.

The National Examination Board of Nepal (NEB) last week postponed the Grade 12 board exams that were scheduled to begin today. This was the culmination of a week-long struggle by grade 12 students who went to social media platforms and made #CancelNEBExams a trending topic within the country, reaching as far as 80,000 tweets. The decision on the part of the NEB is indeed pretty sensible, given the country is trying to get through the throes of the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.