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Over 2,000 junior high students failed exams, says ministry
Deputy Education and Culture Minister Musliar Kasim said on Friday that 2,335 out of 3
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eputy Education and CultureMinister Musliar Kasim said on Friday that2,335 out of 3.7 million junior high school students failed the national examsheld in May.
'The percentage of students who passed the exams increased from 99.56 percent last year to 99.94 percent this time,' Musliar said as quoted by tempo.co, adding that each school would officially announce the result on Saturday.
Musliar said further that Aceh, West Sulawesi and North Kalimantan were provinces with the highest number of failed students, while Jakarta, East Java and Central Java had the lowest.
According to Musliar, technical problems caused the majority of the students' failures, including absences in the subjects of Indonesian, English, science and math.
Meanwhile, he said 70 percent of all junior high students who sat the exams answer international-standard questions correctly, according to the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). These questions are used in developing countries that are part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Musliar added that the total average score in this year's national exams had increased from 6.1 last year to 6.52.
A student is considered to have passed the national exams if he or she receives an average score of 5.5, with no score lower than 4 for each subject.
This year, the Education and Culture Ministry decided to implement a new scoring system to determine whether a junior high student had passed the exams.
According to the system, a student's total score in the national exams contributes 60 percent to the assessment, while the other 40 percent comes from test results obtained during coursework. (gda/dic)
