Students get last chance to take final exam
Students get last chance to take final exam
The Jakarta Post, Medan, Yogyakarta
After failing the national final examination in June, Oki
Apriliani was devastated when an illness forced her to miss the
makeup test this week after weeks of intense preparation.
"I am really sorry I could not take the repeat exam. But it is
not my fault. I was sick and the doctor told me to rest," Oki, a
student at SMU Dharma Pancasila high school in Medan, told The
Jakarta Post on Thursday.
Now she wants one last chance to take the exam. "I hope I can
be given another chance," said Oki, who failed Bahasa Indonesia
and English in the original test.
Medan's Education Office estimates about 100 junior high
school and high school students were unable to take their repeat
exams.
The head of the office, Irwan Effendi Lubis, said those
students who were unable to take the makeup tests because of
illness or some other verifiable reason would be able to take
another exam from Aug. 29 to Aug. 31.
He said a third exam date was planned by the Ministry of
National Education in anticipation that many students would be
unable to take the repeat tests this week.
"Students who could not take the repeat exams should prepare
for the upcoming tests. We hope nobody misses these last exams
because this will be the last chance," Irwan said.
There is no official data on the number of students in Medan
who missed the repeat exams, but according to information from
the schools 61 high school students, 128 vocational school
students and 106 junior high school students failed to take the
tests.
The makeup exams in Medan this week were taken by 1,780 high
school students, 3,047 vocational school students and 1,047
junior high school students.
In Yogyakarta province, the local Education Office said 842
junior high school and 669 high school students missed the makeup
exams.
"We have prepared letters for each school asking them to list
those students who failed to take the repeat exams and their
reasons for not showing up at the tests," said the head of the
Education Office's supervision program, Baskoro Aji, on Thursday.
Those who could not take the repeat exams this will be able to
take their tests from Aug. 29 to Aug. 31, he added.
The results of this week's repeat exams will be announced on
Sept. 3. Those students who fail will have three options --
repeat their grade take the national final examinations again
next year, take a special course, or apply to private
universities and retake the exams next year.
"But I am sure most of the students will pass the repeat exams
this week because they had a month to prepare," Baskoro said.