Can students reach the examination hall on the revised dates?

Students across the flood-affected districts are asking that question in public, and it has a checkable answer that nobody had published. So we checked it. Below is what the two IOE routines say when you read one against the other, and what the highways between those students and their examination centres allow as of . This page states what the documents say. It asks the Institute of Engineering for nothing and it predicts nothing.

What the two routines say

The regular Bhadra routine was published on 31 July 2026 as notice 14154. Every Bachelor semester examination was postponed on 28 August 2026 by notice 14898, which names the disaster as the reason. The revised routine followed on 31 August 2026 as notice 14940. Both routines are scanned tables, so the dates below were read off the rendered pages of each PDF rather than off a portal listing.

Four arrows on a September date axis; three span seven days, the fourth-year one spans three and ends first.
Each year’s first written paper, original routine against revised, on one day-proportional axis. The arrows cross: the group whose papers moved least is the group that now sits first.Imperial College of Engineering, from IOE notices 14154 and 14940
The one-page IOE letter postponing all Bachelor semester examinations, signed and dated 2083-05-12.
The postponement itself, dated 2083-05-12 and signed by Dr Baburam Dawadi, Assistant Dean. It names the natural disaster as the reason and postpones the regular examinations due to begin 2083-05-16 until a new routine is published.IOE notice 14898, published 28 August 2026Open notice 14898 at full size
First written paper of each regular year and part, original routine against revised. Read off notices 14154 and 14940.
Year and partOriginalRevisedMoved by
Fourth year I partOld course4 September7 September3 days
First year II partNew course1 September8 September7 days
Second year II partNew course2 September9 September7 days
Third year II partNew course3 September10 September7 days

Two things fall out of that table. The first is that the shift is not one number: it is 3 days for one group and 7 for the other three, so a student reading a figure from a group chat is quite likely reading somebody else's.

The second is the order. In the original routine these four groups sat on consecutive days, first year first and fourth year last. In the revised routine the fourth year goes first. The group whose papers moved the least is the group that sits earliest, and it has 7 days between the revised routine being published and its first paper.

You do not have to take that on trust. These are the same region of the same table in each routine, one above the other. The column headings match, the subject codes match, and the date in the first row is the only thing that has changed.

Scanned routine table headed BE/BAR IV/I Old Course Regular with its first row dated 2083-05-19.
The original routine, fourth year first part. The first row reads 2083-05-19, which is 4 September, and the subject codes begin CE 702 Design of RCC Structure.IOE notice 14154, page 4, published 31 July 2026Scroll the panel sideways to read the whole row.
The same scanned routine table after revision, its first row now dated 2083-05-22.
The revised routine, same year and part, same opening subjects. The first row now reads 2083-05-22, which is 7 September. Three days, and the two crops are otherwise the same table.IOE notice 14940, page 7, published 31 August 2026Scroll the panel sideways to read the whole row.
A timeline drawn to scale from 31 July to 7 September, with four events clustered in the final twelve days.
Drawn to scale, so the gaps are the story. The routine that governs a student’s travel was published seven days before the paper it governs.Imperial College of Engineering, from IOE notices 14154, 14898, 14939 and 14940

Back-paper and batch-out examinations are not in that table on purpose. They were postponed from a different date by the same notice, they start at 7:00 am rather than 1:00 pm, and putting them in the same column as the regular papers would compare two different things. Their dates are in the same revised routine.

What the roads allow

These are the routes candidates from outside the Kathmandu Valley would have to travel on. The status of each was read off the sources named on our emergency helplines and flood page on , and roads in this condition change within a day.

  • Prithvi HighwaySevered at Krishnabhir in Dhading, and completely blocked

    The Trishuli has eroded the base of the road at Krishnabhir in Benighat Rorang and the carriageway has subsided. This is the Kathmandu–Muglin–Narayangadh road: if you are travelling to the Valley from Pokhara, Chitwan, Butwal or anywhere further west, this is your road, and there is no published date for its reopening.

  • Pasang Lhamu Highway (Galchhi–Syaphrubesi)Gone, not merely closed

    The Rasuwa road, through the reach the flood destroyed. The Friendship Bridge at Rasuwagadhi, the main crossing into China, went with it. This was the all-weather route to Kerung and it no longer exists as a road.

  • Araniko Highway and the Tatopani crossingTatopani border point closed by China on 31 August

    Closed on landslide risk, which removes the obvious alternative to Rasuwagadhi for anything crossing the northern border.

  • Muglin–NarayangadhOpening and closing along the Trishuli on flood risk

    NDRRMA warned again on 30 August that flows in the Bhote Koshi had risen. Check before you set out; this stretch has been stopping and restarting all week.

A road bridge over the Trishuli dropped into the river, its deck broken and the approach washed away.
This is the condition the routine is asking candidates to travel in. 41 bridges were damaged or destroyed along this river system and 19 of them carried motor traffic.Photograph: Sujan Gurung, The Rising Nepal

Nepal Traffic Police on 103 hold the current position on any of these, and it is worth a call before setting out rather than after. 41 bridges were damaged or destroyed along this river system and 19 of those carried motor traffic, so a route that is open at one end is not necessarily open along its length.

The other thing due that week, which also needs a campus

IOE published three results on the evening of 31 August 2026 — notices 14962, 14963, 14964 — and all three carry the same re-totalling clock. The application has to be at your own campus by 7 September, and the campus then has to reach the Examination Control Division by 10 September. The second date cannot rescue a missed first one.

That first date is 7 September, which is the same day the earliest revised paper sits, and it has the same problem attached: it is a thing you do at a campus. Anyone in that position is being asked to make the same journey twice in the same week.

An IOE result notice listing three MSc programme codes and two re-totalling deadlines.
One of the three results IOE published on the evening of 31 August. The paragraph above the table is the one to read: the re-totalling application is due at your own campus by 2083-05-22, and the campus must reach the Examination Control Division by 2083-05-25.IOE notice 14962, published 31 August 2026Open notice 14962 at full size

The questions students are asking

These are restated in our own words rather than quoted. They come from posts written by named students on their own accounts, and a college that reprints one of those has put a student's name into an argument they did not choose to have here. Every question below is answerable with a fact, which is why it is worth publishing.

Is the road between my district and the examination centre open today?
Two of the highways that carry candidates into the Valley are not passable, and one of them no longer exists as a road. The current status of each is below, with the date it was checked.
How many days am I actually being given?
The answer is different for every year and part, and it ranges from three days to seven. The table above gives the figure for each one, read off both routines.
Is public transport running on the route I would have to take?
Services on the Muglin–Narayangadh stretch have been starting and stopping all week on flood risk. Traffic Police on 103 hold the current position, and it changes within a day.
If I cannot reach the hall, what happens to my paper?
Neither the postponement notice nor the resumption notice says. The routine sets dates and the rules printed on it; it does not describe a route for a candidate who cannot travel.
Who decides, and who do I write to?
The routine is set centrally by the Examination Control Division at Chakupat, not by a campus. A campus can pass a case up; it cannot move a date.
Will the routine change again?
Nobody outside IOE can answer this, and this page does not guess. The routine itself says a campus must tell students at least one day before a paper, including if it is revised again.

What this page is not

  • This is not an official notice, and nothing here changes a date. IOE publishes the routine and it is the only authority on it.
  • No prediction that the dates will move again, in either direction.
  • No student is named, quoted or screenshotted.
  • No claim about what IOE intended. The comparison states what the two documents say and stops there.

The official cards for the postponement and the resumption, written as notices, are on our notice board, and the routine itself is the only document that governs your own paper. Read your own row in it rather than a date going around a group chat.

Read the source documents

If you are a student here and you need to talk to someone about your own paper, the college examination section is on 01-5091616. That is the same number our notice board already carries, and this page adds nothing to it.

Last reviewed by Imperial College of Engineering. Every date here was read off the IOE routine PDF that carries it, and every AD date is derived from the BS one rather than converted by hand.