Indonesia is one of the development countries. This country is already become an Independent country since 1945, it is not long, but they already have improvement. Indonesia is known as democracy country. They have a lot of different culture in every tribe in Indonesia. Education in Indonesia is not balance between in town and in the village. To make the standard all the same the government decided to make national exam every year for the seniors, so the governor can make the standard the same. Every country has a different way of standardizing education. Most countries adopt something like national exams. Every level of study is given a standardized test to pass. In Indonesia, we call this Ujian Nasional, or the national exams. What is National Exam? “is a standard evaluation system of primary and secondary education in Indonesia and the equation of quality of education levels among the areas that are conducted by the Center for Educational Assessment, Purpose of National Exam to Indonesian. There are different opinions about the exams, particularly because they are implemented nationwide, though there are high disparities in education between the provinces. The pros and cons of this matter have been discussed for a long time. The government even stopped the national exams for a year on one occasion. The pro-side feels the need to standardize education. The purpose of this is to ensure that students that pass will have the same level of understanding of their school lessons. With this, graduates would be qualified and well prepared for the world of labor. Therefore, the government applies the national exams standards to all public and private schools. Solution This is one of the strategies for Indonesia becomes more Independent country. But a lot of students did not like it because there is the pressure and if they are not pass the test it is like the end of their life. so there are positive and negative point of the National Exam.
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Marte
5/2/2015 07:17:17 pm
I can see that it is both a negative and a positive aspect of having a national exam. Personally I hate testing because generally I am not very good at it so in that sense i would say no to the exam. But for the generalization of the students it might be just what they need.
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5/4/2015 10:08:56 am
Hi Vania,
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5/5/2015 06:33:53 am
Hi Vania!
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