1,405 caught cheating during entrance exams<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The national exam committee unearthed 1,405
\ncheating cases during the two-day nationwide state university
\nadmission tests last June, an official report said Saturday.<\/p>\n
The committee has turned over to the police 22 people caught
\ndoing the admission tests for others, Soesmalijah Soewondo, a
\nmember of the national test committee, told The Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n
The cheating occurred mostly in Manado, Ujungpandang and
\nMalang, the report said. It also happened in Jakarta, Surabaya
\nand Yogyakarta.<\/p>\n
Soesmilijah accepted that such cheating practices always
\nhappen during college entrance exams and are difficult to
\neliminate. However, she refused to say if it is an indication
\nthat prospective state university students are not of the
\nrequired standard.<\/p>\n
\"I believe it occurred owing to the stiff competition to enter
\nstate universities,\" Soesmalijah, a staff lecturer at the
\nUniversity of Indonesia School of Psychology, said.<\/p>\n
During this year's entrance tests, the results of which were
\nannounced on July 27, only 63,753 out of 357,452 prospective
\nstudents were admitted to the 89 state universities. Of the
\n63,753 admitted, 33,376 were enrolled in natural sciences
\nprograms and 30,377 in the social sciences programs.<\/p>\n
State universities are the favorite choice of many students on
\naccount of their low tuition fees, thanks to substantial
\ngovernment subsidies, and the adequate facilities they offer.<\/p>\n
\"Many prospective students will do anything to enter state
\nuniversities because studying at them is a lot cheaper than at
\nprivate ones,\" Soesmalijah said.<\/p>\n
She said this year's high incidence of cheating is
\nregrettable. \"The students did not seem to have enough self-
\nconfidence,\" she said.<\/p>\n
Prospective students who had their tests done by others were
\ndropped from the list and turned down, she said.<\/p>\n
Last year, a total of 593 \"jockeys\", or people who sat the
\ntests for others, were caught throughout Indonesia. Jockeys are
\nknown to cooperate with corrupt insiders.<\/p>\n
Test participants are divided into three regions according to
\nwhere they live: Group A, comprises 17 universities in Jakarta,
\nSumatra, West Kalimantan and West Java; Group B comprises nine
\nuniversities in Central Java, Yogyakarta, South Kalimantan,
\nCentral Kalimantan and East Kalimantan; and Group C comprises 17
\nuniversities in East Java, Bali, Nusa Tenggara, Sulawesi, Maluku
\nand Irian Jaya. (31)<\/p>",
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