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VP: NATIONAL EXAMINATION SCORE BELOW PROPER STANDARD
Jakarta, July 2 (ANTARA) - Vice President Jusuf Kalla said the average score of the recent national school examinations which rose from 5.00 to 5.25 was still under the proper standard of 6.00.
"The average score of 5.25 this year is still under the proper standard of 6.00. In Singapore it is 7.00 and in Malaysia 6.00," Kalla said at the vice presidential palace here on Wednesday.
He said national examinations in other countries were in reality more difficult than in Indonesia, so it should not have been too hard for Indonesian students to pass the tests.
The vice president said another abnormal thing in Indonesia was that parents whose children had flunked their final school examinations often refused to accept the reality and went to the extent of suing the education authoriies in court. "This kind of thing happens nowhere alse in the world," Kalla said.
Kalla said that if school examinations were easy and all students could pass them like in the past, students would become lazy and unwilling to study hard, and, as a result, they would engage in brawls in the streets. "But now, when they have failed tests, they will be bashful and have no time for brawling," Kalla said.
He said teachers should teach the materials which were going to be presented in tests, and the students themselves had to know what was going to be tested. "It is good that students who fail tests feel shy and sad, because such a feeling can motivate them to study even harder," said the vice president.
He said the national examinations were intended to measure the standards of national education in comparison with those of other countries.
Kalla also expressed hope that the education budget in the future could be raised to Rp70 trillion or even Rp100 trillion.
"The average score of 5.25 this year is still under the proper standard of 6.00. In Singapore it is 7.00 and in Malaysia 6.00," Kalla said at the vice presidential palace here on Wednesday.
He said national examinations in other countries were in reality more difficult than in Indonesia, so it should not have been too hard for Indonesian students to pass the tests.
The vice president said another abnormal thing in Indonesia was that parents whose children had flunked their final school examinations often refused to accept the reality and went to the extent of suing the education authoriies in court. "This kind of thing happens nowhere alse in the world," Kalla said.
Kalla said that if school examinations were easy and all students could pass them like in the past, students would become lazy and unwilling to study hard, and, as a result, they would engage in brawls in the streets. "But now, when they have failed tests, they will be bashful and have no time for brawling," Kalla said.
He said teachers should teach the materials which were going to be presented in tests, and the students themselves had to know what was going to be tested. "It is good that students who fail tests feel shy and sad, because such a feeling can motivate them to study even harder," said the vice president.
He said the national examinations were intended to measure the standards of national education in comparison with those of other countries.
Kalla also expressed hope that the education budget in the future could be raised to Rp70 trillion or even Rp100 trillion.
