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JAKARTA: Thousands of high school students can breathe a sigh of relief after those who failed to pass the national exams succeeded in the remedial exam in May
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AKARTA: Thousands of high school students can breathe a sigh of relief after those who failed to pass the national exams succeeded in the remedial exam in May.
Governor Fauzi Bowo announced Friday that the graduation rate for junior high students was 99.79 percent, an increase of 28.76 percent from the national exam.
The senior high graduation rate was 98.65 percent, compared to 90.7 percent before the remedial test, while 99.77 percent of vocational school students graduated, up from 92.23 percent.
However, this still leaves 284 junior high, 1,807 senior high and 147 vocational school students who did not graduate.
The grading system this year applied for each of the subjects studied, so students who failed the subject would fail the national examination and had to repeat the same subject in the remedial exam. - JP
