UNBK as Means for Improvement

Kompas/Bahana Patria Gupta

Students of state senior high school SMA Negeri 5 take part in the computer-based national exams with the subject of Bahasa Indonesia in Surabaya on Monday (10/4). Up to 156,710 SMA students took part in the national exams.

The advantage of digital technology in a computer-based system for national exams seems to have become the ultimate weapon in the debates over the tests.

In reality, the computer-based national exams (UNBK) are only a means because the main substance of the debate remains whether the national exams are still needed. A rise of enforceable honesty has not answered the question. The national exams as a test of the knowledge retention is part of the minimum requirement of standardization. In that context, the computer-based national exams are a necessity. Various improvement means are just technical measures to support opinions about the importance of the national exams.