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This paper is concerned with special eigenvalue problems of the form \[ y^{(2m)}(x)+ \sum^{m- 1}_{k= 0}c_k(\lambda, x)y^{(2k)}(x)= 0,\quad y^{(k)}(a)= y^{(k)}(b)= 0,\qquad k= 0,1,\dots,m- 1, \] exhibiting a simple eigenvalue \(\lambda\) to be calculated. The equation is discretized by finite differences in such a manner that in the resulting algebraic system an `even-symmetric' matrix \(F(\lambda)\) occurs. The authors present a numerical scheme for solving the latter eigenvalue problem, provided that the matrix \(F(\lambda)\) is Hermitian, positive-definite for \(0<\lambda< \lambda_0\), and negative-definite for \(\lambda_0< \lambda<\lambda_1\). Under further assumptions on \(F(\lambda)\), an initial guess for the approximate eigenvalue \(\lambda_0\) is given. Two problems are treated numerically, namely \(y''+(\lambda+ \lambda^2x^2)y= 0\), and \(y^{\text{IV}}+ c^2\lambda^2 y''+(1- \sin\lambda x)y= 0\) under the boundary conditions \(y(-1)= y(1)= 0\), and \(y(0)= y(1)= y'(0)= y'(1)= 0\), respectively.