National Exam: Pro and Contra?

National exam becomes the hot topic in most of discussions among students, teachers, and parents. Some people belie
ve that national exam is not necessary for students as a requirement to be able graduate from a school. In other hand, o
ther people see national exam as an important indicator to know whether students have mastered all school materials o
r not. The debate among society about national examination goes on until now.
For people who agree, national exam is necessary for students as a requirement to graduate from a school. People who
support the national exam explain that the quality of the Indonesia education will drop without the national exam, so th
ey try to defend the current system. They also think that national examination can motivate students to study harder.

However there are people who disagree with the opinion. Those who against this national exam kept in school educati
on say that it doesn’t need the national exams because the quality of education does not just depend on the national exa
m. Further, the national exam only measures a small portion of students’ competence in specific subjects, and does not
measure students’ competences throughout the semester.

In conclusion, national examination can still be useful as an instrument to evaluate or detect the level of students’ cogn
itive competence in several subjects, on a national scale. However, it is not fair if only national exam score that judge
whether students pass or not. Government should make a regulation that national exam is not the only requirement for
students to graduate. There should be other requirements added such as students’ daily score, behavior, and achieveme
nt.
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Muh. Arif Pratama, S.Pd

@ GradeXII room Wednesday, October 02nd 2019

 What is Discussion text?
 Discussion text is a text which presents a problematic discourse. T
his problem will be discussed from different viewpoints. Discussion
is commonly found in philosophical, historic, and social text. In oth
er word, Discussion is a kind of genre used to present (at least) tw
o points of view about an issue.
 Purpose of Discussion text
 To present two points of view about issue or problem.
 To present arguments from differing points of view about issue or
problem.
Generic Structure of Discussion text:
   Issue
stating the issue which is to discussed.
 Argument pro
presenting the point in in supporting the presented issue
Closing
 Argument cons
presenting other points which disagree to the supporting point
 Conclusion / recommendation
stating the writer’ recommendation of the discourse
Language feature of Discussion Text
 Introducing category or generic participant
 Using thinking verb; feel, hope, believe, etc.
 Using contrastive conjunction; however, on the other hand, but, in other side, althoug
h, etc.
 Using modalities; must, should, could, may, etc.
 Using adverbial of manner; deliberately, hopefully, etc.
 Simple present