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2,693 students in E. Manggarai sit national exam
Testing times: Students taking the national exams (UN) at state senior high school SMA 1 Kota Komba study their exam materials diligently in the first day of the exams on Monday morning
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span class="inline inline-center">Testing times: Students taking the national exams (UN) at state senior high school SMA 1 Kota Komba study their exam materials diligently in the first day of the exams on Monday morning. In this year's exams there have been no problems such as a shortage of question materials reported as the distribution of the materials has run smoothly. In East Manggarai regency, 2,693 senior high school, Islamic high school, or Madrasah Aliyah, and vocational school students are taking the UN which is scheduled to take place from April 14 to April 16. (JP/Markus Makur)
As many as 2,693 students from senior high schools, Islamic high schools, or Madrasah Aliya, and vocational schools in East Manggarai regency, East Nusa Tenggara, are sitting the national exams (UN) which are set to take place simultaneously in 21 regencies and municipalities from April 14 to April 16.
Unlike the 2013 exams which were marred by delays due to poor distribution of question materials, there have been no problems that have hindered the carrying out of the UN this year.
The 2014 UN in the province will be taken by 277,639 students from elementary schools to senior high schools and other schools at the same level.
Of a total of 2,693 exam participants in East Manggarai, 2,389 are senior high school or Islamic high school students while the remaining 304 are vocational school students.
The head of the middle education department at the East Manggarai Education, Youth and Sports Agency, Galmin Marselinus, said 25 of a total of 39 senior high schools and Islamic high schools as well as three vocational schools in the regency were currently holding the national exams.
He said results from monitoring activities in several schools in East Manggarai showed that in its first day of implementation, the UN went smoothly. There was no shortage of question papers and exam materials had been distributed well in all schools. No students reported sick in the first day of the national exams.
Marselinus added that the East Manggarai administration had set a 90 percent pass-rate target for the UN for senior high schools, Islamic high schools and vocational schools because last year the pass rate in the regency stood at 97 percent and this was the highest in the Flores Islands.
'The East Manggarai administration wants to maintain this achievement and if possible, to increase it to 100 percent,' he told The Jakarta Post when monitoring the UN at state senior high school SMA 1 Kota Komba in Waelengga, on Monday. (ebf)
