{"id":13403,"date":"2026-05-20T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/20\/second-round-1405-national-university-entrance-exam-18-provinces\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T07:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:00:20","slug":"second-round-1405-national-university-entrance-exam-18-provinces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/20\/second-round-1405-national-university-entrance-exam-18-provinces\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Round of 1405 National University Entrance Exam Begins in 18 Provinces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spokesperson for the National Examination Directorate announced that the second round of the 1405 nationwide university entrance exam (Konkur) will commence on Thursday (May 21) in 18 provinces across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Nasercan Shirzai stated that this stage of the Konkur will take place in the provinces of Panjshir, Laghman, Kunduz, Jowzjan, Kandahar, Bamyan, Paktia, Takhar, Samangan, Farah, Helmand, Daikundi, Nangarhar, Nimroz, Balkh, Khost, and Zabul.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, three districts of Nuristan province, including Central Nuristan, Eastern Nuristan, and Western Nuristan, are also included in this round, with the candidates in these areas scheduled to take the exam on May 21 and June 1.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson also added that the third day of the Konkur exam in Nangarhar province will be held on June 1.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the 14th-grade Konkur exams for the provinces of Nangarhar, Laghman, Kandahar, Helmand, Farah, and Nimroz will be scheduled after all four rounds of the 1405 Konkur are completed.<\/p>\n<p>According to information from the directorate, proficiency tests for religious scholars will also be held in the provinces of Nuristan, Bamyan, and Ghor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second round of the 1405 national university entrance exam begins May 21 in 18 Afghan provinces, with religious scholar tests also scheduled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-social-affairs","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}