Thousands of Students Achieve Perfect Scores in Primary and Secondary School Academic Ability Test for Maths and Indonesian

Jakarta – The Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (Kemendikdasmen) reported more than 1,000 students achieved perfect scores in Maths during the Academic Ability Test (TKA) for primary and secondary schools.

“Some students achieved perfect scores by answering all questions correctly. The number of perfect scores in Indonesian is higher than in Maths,” said Rahmawati, Head of the Education Assessment Centre (Pusmendik) at the Ministry, during a media briefing on TKA results for secondary school (SMP/MTs) and primary school (SD/MI) levels in Jakarta on Tuesday.

For primary school level (SD/MI), 814 students scored perfectly in Maths, while 271 achieved perfect marks at secondary school level (SMP/MTS) for the same subject. In Indonesian language, 4,509 students scored perfectly at primary school level, and 4,051 achieved perfect marks at secondary school level.

Rahmawati further explained that TKA questions for primary and secondary school levels are composed of 70% by the central government and 30% by local authorities.

Therefore, she stressed that TKA scores cannot be compared across regions as they have not undergone standardisation of questions across localities.

“Different provinces have different questions, and for all these questions, we conduct verification and validation before scoring,” she said.

The ministry has published TKA results by subject, education level, and province, ordered according to the provincial codes registered in the TKA registration system.