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Sunday, March 11, 2012

National Examination


Definition of National Examination
 According to wikipedia.org, national examination is an evaluation system of educationstandard nationally, which is held by Evaluation Center of Education and Departementof Education in Indonesia based on UU RI No. 20, 2003. Further, it is stated that evaluation is to evaluate national education standard. Monitoring process of that evaluation is done continuosly in order that finally it can make our education quality better.

Implementation Of National Examination Recently
Nowadays, national exam is implemented in all education level, not only in junior and senior high school, but also in elementary school (UASBN). Some people regard the implementation of national exam as a burden for the students because standard of national exam score increase year to year. Since 2008, standard of national exam score increase from 5,00 to 5,25. While for all subjects that is examined (includes subjects that is not national exam subjects), the students might not get score below 4, 25 in order to pass the exam. Those evaluation standard has been a phantom for several schools which afraid many students of theirs will not be able to pass national exam. Those schools are afraid if many of their students don’t pass the exam, they will be regarded as low quality school. That makes the emergence of deceits in national exam, not only in the form of cheating among students, but also a tricky strategy of several school to “help” their students pass national exam unfairly.

There are some reason why national examination should be abolished :

1. National exam can’t be a good measure to reflect students competence
National exam can’t be a standard to determine graduation of students. National exam is just a kind of examination which is held in 2-3 hours for each subjects and it doesn’t represents the real achievement of students. For example :  There is a brilliant and smart student who often participate in mathematics olympiade. Unfortunately when national exam was held, he was sick and he couldn’t answer mathematics exam correctly then he didn’t pass the exam. It is not fair for him because the exam didn’t reflect his true ability in math.

2. National exam make wrong students main set: emphasize in exam score of the science, not the essence of the science. Ideally, education is designed to give students understanding of the science materials. But in fact, students in Indonesia is not educated to understand where the theory comes from. They are taught just to be able to answer the questions in exam correctly without understand basic concepts of the materials. Many students emphasize on the score, not the essence of science, so they compete to get higher score and often they compete unfairly through cheating.

3. National exam cause many kind of deceits in its implementation
Schools which are afraid if many of their students don’t pass the exam can do many kind of tricky strategy to “help” their students pass national exam unfairly. For example there are school that suggest their teacher to give answer of national exam through SMS. There is also many rich students who use their parents money to buy the answer or question sheet of national exam before it is held. Those deceits are done because the agent/ object of national exams itself don’t have a good mentality to understand what the purpose of national examine.

So...do you agree if national examination should be abolished....????
YES or NO

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