"The judgement day is near! Prepare yourself, students. Get your hands moving from books to books, tryouts to tryouts." The Ujian Nasional is just another month away, yet it has already impacted many people's life, both in a good way and in a bad way.
The test, conducted on April 22-24, is naturally very appropriate to be dreaded. The number of subjects has doubled from the original three (Math, Bahasa Indonesia, English) to include subjects belonging to specific programs. Yup, students in natural sciences program will have to face physics, biology, and chemistry; students in social sciences will meet sociology, geography, and economics.
Those subjects will be crammed into three days, allegedly caused by limited funding from the govt. The result (for IPA): Bahasa Indonesia gets paired up with math, English with chemistry, and (oh God!) physics settles with biology. This is insane! The govt is going to push students just because the can't allocate adequate fund if the exam goes more than 3 days. This will, of course, raise doubts about the govt's seriousness in the whole UN thing.
The test, conducted on April 22-24, is naturally very appropriate to be dreaded. The number of subjects has doubled from the original three (Math, Bahasa Indonesia, English) to include subjects belonging to specific programs. Yup, students in natural sciences program will have to face physics, biology, and chemistry; students in social sciences will meet sociology, geography, and economics.
Those subjects will be crammed into three days, allegedly caused by limited funding from the govt. The result (for IPA): Bahasa Indonesia gets paired up with math, English with chemistry, and (oh God!) physics settles with biology. This is insane! The govt is going to push students just because the can't allocate adequate fund if the exam goes more than 3 days. This will, of course, raise doubts about the govt's seriousness in the whole UN thing.
If the govt really cares about improving education quality in the country, they should really think about this test. How can they expect a student to endure such a burden? It could only be logical if physics and math are given it's own day so that these essential subjects are given adequate attention by test-takers. I wouldn't mind a day with two tests as long as one of the test is on language.
My propsal: swap biology with math and split math from physics. On the first day, students will face biology and Bahasa Indonesia; on the second, chemistry and English, physics on the third; and math on the last day. This should relieve teachers and studens alike. They are under enough pressure already after the UN is expanded into 6 subjects.
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