1 Mar 2009

National Exam is Just a Big Burden

There are many arguments for and against the government regulation to held national examinations for students as a parameter to determine their high school level completion. Moreover, the ministry of education raised up the passing grade standard and add the amount of subjects tested from three to six different subjects in the 2008 examination.

Those who agrees with the decision said that our national education should be better so that the national exam will motivate both the students and teachers to work hard to pass the examination. As an exemplar, the minister of education pointed Malaysia which has a high passing grade of 7,0 for their national examination in 2007, whiles we only have 3,25 in the same year.

In the other hand, we as students really disagree if national examination becomes the only determiner towards the three years of study we’ve been through in senior high school. We believe that the completion of the high school study cannot be measured by our ability in mastering the global subjects tested. But we should also consider soft skills owned by each students. In additional, each school across the nation has different quality of teachers, educational equipments and capability in mastering the subjects. For instant, the students who happens to be victims of the Tsunami in Aceh would have psychological problems to master the subjects compare to those who survive

In conclusion, I believe that government national examination should be erased since it is lack of fairness upon the variety kinds of students across the nation. Instead, the government would have to consider the other aspects to determine high school students completion which will not become a big burden for all party.

Written By : Danial Hamzah for SMABA
Date : May, 18 2008

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