Should National Online Exam Held?
In the next few days, the National Examination will be held soon at the high school level until the elementary level. Implementation is the same as the national exam last year, but the government in this case the Ministry of Education and Culture (Kemendibud) added a few new rules by implementing the national exam online some schools.
If viewed from the circumstances and situations that exist in the field at this time, the implementation plan of the national exam online is not appropriate and need to be reconsidered. Actually the idea presented by the government to carry out the national examination is very good but in its implementation in lapaangan will cause various problems such as uneven infrastructure and lack of knowledge or experts in some schools.
If the implementation of the online national exam is still done, some schools will have difficulty in the absence of adequate infrastructure such as computers, internet access and electrical power. Let's imagine if the school has 300 students who take the national exam, then how many computers are required by the school to carry out this national exam. Surely they will need a lot of computers. If imposed, the only way is to use the computer in turn, but this way will only cause a new problem that is the incidence of cheating in the national exam. Even if the cheating is still allowed to happen, then what is the use of national exams carried out by squandering the State's money that is not that sedikti, if the main purpose of the national exam is not conveyed.
Moreover, the problem that can be caused is the lack of experts in some schools. Implementation of the new national exam will be held this year will make some schools confused. Some even do not understand how to do it. For example, if there are teachers and students who can not use the computer, then what will happen? can be sure they will be difficult and of course this will also add to the burden of some students. They can be distracted and consequently they will fail the national exam.
Should the government want to implement the national exam online, they must ensure the availability of infrastructure that supports and also not too rushed to implement it. The government also needs to socialize directly to school long before the national exam is held so as not to cause the problems mentioned above.