Students take SPMB tests

Students take SPMB tests

YOGYAKARTA: Up to 16,171 high school graduates in Yogyakarta, as
well as hundreds of thousands of other students nationwide, are
sitting the national entrance examinations (SPMB) to gain
admission to prestigious state universities. The tests started on
Wednesday and will continue on Thursday.

Wednesday sees the students sitting language and
quantitative skills tests, while they are due to sit the math and
natural sciences (IPA), and social sciences (IPS) tests on
Thursday.

Speaking to journalists here on Tuesday, the chairman of
the Yogyakarta National University Entrance Examinations
Committee, Tony Atyanto Dharoko, said that the number of students
sitting this year's national entrance tests in Yogyakarta had
dropped sharply from last year, when some 22,500 students sat the
tests. -- JP