The Secondary Education Examination started from 8 am on Friday across the country.

As many as 516,591 students from regular and exempted categories are sitting in the examination that will be held from 8am to 11am in 2,037 examination centers across the country.

The question papers of six compulsory subjects have been prepared province-wise separately while the answer sheet is being managed by the provincial directorate.

Students from 11,429 schools–7,265 public schools and 4,564 private schools–are participating in SEE.

The first SEE, which replaced the School Leaving Certificate examination with over eight decades of history, was held in 2017.

Here are some photos of the first day of the SEE taken by Post photographer Elite Joshi and Humla reporter Janak Bahadur Shahi.