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Government has decided to implement national exams as a kind of evaluation of
education. Minister of Education decree states that the purpose of national exam is to
measure learning competence of the students. national exam play important role as a
nationally education quality controller, a substance for determining graduation of the
students and as a concern in admission selection of higher level education.

National exam is held for several µimportant subjects¶, though still there is a debate
about why those µimportant subject¶ are called µimportant¶. Does it means that the other
subjects are not important?

Based on that fact, we have a rising question :


Can evaluation s ystem, in the form of national exam, give all information about
achievement rate of education purpose established by government ? Can national
exam give information about creativity and independence of the students? Can
national exam give information about democratic attitude and learning skill of the
students?
The answer is NO. The implementation of national exam is not appropriate with its
purpose. So, why we should maintain it?

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Realizing that the implementation of national exam is not appropriate with its former
purpose, I am interested in taking the topics ³ NATIONAL EXAMINATION SHOULD BE
ABOLISHED´ in this paper.

  
1. To understand the definition of national examination
2. To understand the implementation of national examination recently
3. To understand the reason why national examination should be abolished
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According to wikipedia.org, national examination is an evaluation system of education


standard nationally , which is held by Evaluation Center of Education and Departement
of 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 evaluat ion is done continuosly in order that finally it can
make our education quality better.

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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 emerge of deceits in national exam, not only in the form of
cheating among students, but also a tricky strateg y of several school to ³help´ their
students pass national exam unfairly.

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There are some reason why national examination should be abolished :

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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 perticipate in
mathematics olympiade. Unfortunately when nationan 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.

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Ideally, education is designed to give students understanding of the science
matterials. 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
matterials.

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.

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Schools which are afraid if many of their students don¶t pass the exam can do
many kind of tricky strategy to ³help´ tehir 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 od 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 exam
indeed.
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National examination should be abolished because :
1. National exam can¶t be a good measure to reflect students competence
2. National exam make wrong students mainset: emphasize in exam score of the
science, not the essence of the science
3. National exam cause many kind of deceits in its implementation



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The implementation of national exam nowadays is uneffective and unefficient.
Therefore, we should abolish national examination and implement other method of
evaluation which is better.

For example, in order to make it efficient and fair, the graduation of students should be
determined by the school side, not by national exam because the school knows more
about the capability or competence of its student, whether he or she is able to pass the
exam and should be graduated or not.

To cover school that gives unfair score to its students, we should hold an entrance test
for students who wants to con tinue their study in higher level education. This entrance
test is hold independently by the higher level education institute s so they can get input
(students) who are appropriate with their own criteria.

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