Why Cheating Happens in National Examination
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n education we are familiar with the national exam. National Exam in recent years has always be a hot topic by mid-year or in the turn of the academic year. Every year the education policy always changes and default values will be the benchmark of whether or not a student’s pass. And every year these rules have always been a contradiction. Students face the national exam since elementary school until senior high school. Students face the national exam in the last grade. The national exam will determine the students they will graduate or not. Students have to study hard to face the national exam. All students want to get good score in national exam. Not only students but also teachers want their students pass the national exam in good grades to raise the ranking of schools. Except that, the good score in the national exam will help the students to continue their study to the next level.
Cheating in exams, especially the National Examination is already entrenched. Students do everything they can to pass the original target. Cheating in national examination is not a spontaneous thing done by the students. Such cheating has become a habit of students in national examination. Most students cheat because they are not ready to pass the national exam or students think no need to learn to face the national exam because they knew there will be leak in the national examination. So that such cheating was entrenched as the national exam. It was hard to remove cheating culture in the national exam. Self-awareness is the most important thing in this case to improve the national examination quality better. Student’s orientation in passing the examination is the score. When national examinations took place, students do a lot of ways to cheat without being noticed by the supervisor. Students are brave to cheat using mobile phones. In addition, there is also a written answer on certain body parts that are hard to spot by the supervisor. At the national exam students also typically work together to swap answers. And it's all done without being noticed by the supervisor. It seems the students are already proficient in the national affairs cheating during exams.
In fact, there are still schools that deliberately organize and leaked secrets to divide the answer to the participants. Between one with the other students give each other answers. Not only students, who cheat on each other, but the teachers and the principal even allegedly involved. The cause was always said since graduation criteria that use only the National Exam alone. Towards the National Examination there must be some unscrupulous teachers who "force" students to another participant of the National Exam cheating. Although called a "force", but the individual teacher is certainly no bad intentions. They certainly have good intentions. They definitely wanted their students to graduate with satisfactory results. In addition, students with high scores also can raise the ranking of the school itself. Students also felt lucky with it, with high scores students can also continue their education to the university. If the students continue their education in a good university, of course, the parents of the students will also proud of them. Unfortunately the good result that they get is not as good as their struggle to pass the examination. Conversely, if teachers do not help students in order to get good scores when national exams or students are not cheating, it is similar with the value can not satisfy. The worst that happen to student if they do not graduate, it can be detrimental to many parties. From the beginning students, teachers, schools and even parents can be disappointed with it. The most aggrieved party is the students themselves, because not pass the student must repeat for the next national exam. Students must be depressed when they do not graduate because they have to repeat again and considered themselves as a fool. Schools will also get the impact if there are students who do not pass. Usually the school ranking will drop.
Students do cheat when national exams because they think that the national exam is a test that determines their final pass or not. Not infrequently students who are sick before the national exam even when national exams take place. Students can not be maximal when the national exams. So that they dare to cheat in order to graduate and get good grades. Is it only the national examination that determine students would be graduate or not ? That question appear because most of people think that someone is smart if they could past an examination that resulting good scores. It is like a weird thing, where student’s efforts during three years only determined in a few days. No less a board member at the center and regions, including the student's parents objected to the system come graduation of students who only take into account the value of a single examination only. And even if graduation is not solely based on the normative value of the national exam because actually there are three criteria and other requirements to be declared pass but the practice of students who are unable to obtain the minimum passing grade according to the national exam regulations, it still did not pass. As a result the national exam even cause stress for students. With Permendiknas No. 45 Year 2010 regarding criteria of National Exam Year of Study Graduation Party 2010 / 2011 which accommodates the values of report cards and the School Final Examination (UAS) as a criterion for graduation. The criteria of passing the examination are measured from the weight of report cards by 40% and 60% of national test scores.
National exam cheating when it has become a habit in the world of education. Students cheat in order to graduate with good scores. Students with good scores can also continue their education to a great place too. The school and teachers also participated divulge national exam answer key to the students. They definitely wanted her students to graduate with satisfactory results. Indirectly the school ranking will go up anyway. But the tradition of cheating during national exams to be cleared as to determine the graduation of a student not only in view of its national test scores alone but in view also of the value of report cards. If 40 percent of the value of report cards helped students' graduation, should not need any more worries for graduation. National Examination score is only 60 percent as a determinant of graduation. The logical consequence of the National Exam will run according to the provisions.
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