Prometric® Presents Online Alternatives at Alfa Beta Meeting for Delayed Student Exams in Nepal Solutions to offer greater exam access to students during the COVID-19

Kathmandu, Sep 2020 – In discussions earlier this month, Prometric and the National Examination Board (NEB) presented possible online testing solutions to address the needs of a large backlog of students who have not been able to test due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The dialogue, led by Alfa Beta (a global test preparations and services provider), included insights from Soumitra Roy, General Manager-South Asia of Prometric, India; Prof. Chandra Mani Poudel, Ph.D, Chairman, the National Examination Board (NEB); and Pushpa Raj Joshi, Chief of Tribhuvan University Exam Controller Office.

During the meeting, Prometric presented various alternatives for consideration in Nepal, citing different practices deployed across the globe including Remote Proctoring, online remote assessment tool that utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) along with human proctoring to allow students to test from the comfort and safety of home.  Addressing Nepal’s challenge in providing stable internet access to students across the country, in urban as well as rural areas, Prometric highlighted plans for an entirely new innovative solution that would be customized for Nepal. Similar discussions with Prometric and various senior academicians, educators, opinion leaders, and local media in Nepal also transpired earlier this month..

“With COVID-19 putting numerous secondary education and university exams on hold over the past six months, schools have had to evaluate student performance using prior internal exams which has garnered some public criticism,” said Soumitra Roy. “As a leader in the testing and assessment industry, Prometric continues to innovate and drive solutions to provide exam program access to all candidates especially in more remote and under-connected regions.  We look forward to partnering with Alfa Beta to better serve Nepal’s educational institutions and their students.”

“Prometric is an international organization with an established digital platform for conducting online examinations,” noted Dwiraj Sharma, CEO at Alfa Beta. “Prometric currently facilitates several student exams, and their industry leading platforms  both online and offline  provide exams to more than seven million students across 180 different countries in any given year. A possible collaboration with a company of their stature at the national level could pave a new path for the struggling online education in Nepal.”

About Prometric

Prometric, a global leader in test development, test delivery, and candidate services, enables test sponsors worldwide to advance their credentialing programs through test development and delivery solutions that set the standard in quality and service excellence. Prometric offers a comprehensive and reliable approach to advising, developing, managing and delivering programs in an integrated, technology-enabled environment across the world’s most secure testing network, including 14,000 locations in more than 180 countries or through the conveniences of online assessment services. For more information, visit www.prometric.com or follow us on Twitter at @PrometricGlobal and www.linkedin.com/company/prometric/.

About Alfa Beta

Alfa Beta has gloriously completed 29 years in the field of International Education Consulting and is proudly representing more than 300 institutions from over 18 countries. Since its establishment, the organization has been dedicated to helping students make the right choice for their education and future careers globally. As a member of the AIRC, we follow very strict guidelines in our operations and have developed our working procedures accordingly. In these years we have grown to eleven centers across the country and an onshore center in Sydney, Australia. Today, we are the largest study abroad and test preparation center in Nepal, touching and changing the lives of over ten thousand students annually. https://www.alfabetaedu.com/