YANGON, March 11 (Xinhua) -- A total of 128,801 students sat for the nationwide matriculation examination of Myanmar on Monday, the first day of the exam for the academic year 2023-24, the official television channel MRTV reported on Monday.
The figure represents 87.9 percent of the students who had registered for the nationwide matric exam, the media report said, adding that 146,523 students had registered for the exam.
Of them, 8,428 students sat at 47 exam centers in the Nay Pyi Taw Council Area, the media report said. The exam was held at a total of 841 exam centers, including 830 exam centers across the country and 11 overseas exam centers, it said.
The total number of the students who sat for the exam this year is down compared to 161,851 students who sat for the matric exam in the last academic year of 2022-23, official data showed.
In Myanmar, students are required to take the matriculation examination before joining universities. This year's matric exam will be held until March 19.
According to the media report, this year's exam is the first matric exam with a newly-updated curriculum for the Southeast Asian country. ■