National Exam (Indonesia)
Streams Common Subjects Stream Subjects
Natural science Indonesian English Math Physics , Chemistry , Biology
Social studies Indonesian English Math Economy , Geography , Sociology
Language Indonesian English Math Indonesian literature , History / Anthropology Foreign Language Other Than English ( Mandarin , Japanese , German , French , Arabic )
Religion ( MA ) Indonesian English Math Tafsir , Hadith , Kalam , Arabic
Vocational ( SMK ) Indonesian English Math History , Vocational Theory , Vocational Practice
Subjects -- High school ( Sekolah Menengah Atas/Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan/Madrasah Aliyah ( SMA/SMK/MA ) )
National Exam (Indonesian: Ujian Nasional, commonly abbreviated as UNA or UN) is a standard evaluation system of primary and secondary education in Indonesia and the equation of quality of education levels among the areas that are conducted by the Center for Educational Assessment, The Department of Education. The Law of the Republic of Indonesia number 20 of 2003 states that, in order to control the quality of education nationwide to be evaluated as a form of accountability of education providers to the parties concerned. Further stated that the evaluations conducted by independent agencies on a regular basis, comprehensively, transparently, and systematically to assess the achievement of national education standards and the monitoring process evaluation should be done continuously. Evaluation of the monitoring process is carried out continuously and continuous in the end will be able to fix the quality of education. Improving the quality of education begins with the determination of the standard. Determination standards continue to rise is expected to encourage increased quality of education, which is the determination of educational standards is the determination of the limit value (cut-off score). One is said to have passed the exam when it has passed the limit value of the boundary between learners who have mastered certain competencies with learners who have not mastered certain competencies. When that happens on the national exam or school then the boundary value function to separate the students who graduated and did not pass is called the limit of graduation, graduation delimitation activities called standard setting. Benefits of standard setting final exam:
It has been proposed to do a computerized version of National Exam, with trials starting in 2015. In the same year, National Exam is no longer a standard of education completion as it is stated on PP NO 13 Tahun 2015.The government policy states that education completion will depend on completing all school learning programs, obtaining at least good on attitude aspect score, and passing the school exam. There is no cut-off score because the newest exam policy is aimed to map Indonesian students competency in every single region in Indonesia. The data are going to be analyzed and will be used to make education improvement strategies in Indonesia.