TUGAS READING 1

TITLE OF DISCUSSION TEXT: NATIONAL EXAM IN PROS AND CONS

1.THE PURPOSE OF THE TEXT IS TO PRESENT INFORMATION AND OPINIONS ABOUT NATIONAL EXAMS ISSUE

2.GENERIC STRUCTURE

ISSUE:

National exam becomes the hot topic in most of discussions. Though the Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the go-vernment on the organization of the national exams, the controversy over whether it is necessary to maintain the national exams (UN) has continued. Some debates include the primary questions such as; does the quality of Indonesia education depend on the national exam?, will the quality of the Indonesian education system worsen without natipnal exam?

ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST:

People, who support the national exam explain that the quality of the Indonesia education system will drop without the national exam, so they try to defend the current system.
However there are people who disagree with the opinion. Those who against this national exam kept in our high school education say that it doesn't need the national exams because the quality of education does not just depend on the national exam. Further, the national exam only measures a small portion of students' competence in specific subjects, and does not measure students' competences throughout the semester.

CONCLUSION:

In fact, the national examination can still be useful as an instrument to evaluate or detect the level of students' cognitive competence in several subjects, on a national scale.

3.LANGUAGE FEATURES:

a.Using simple present tenses:exams,debates,questions

b.Using relating verb/to be:is

c.Using conjunction:or

4.WH QUESTIONS:

• What is the topic about?

Answer:the topic about controversy of national exams

• What is the reason who agree with national exams explain that the quality of the Indonesia education system will drop without the national exam, so they try to defend the current system.
  
  
• Why did the people disagree with national exams?

Answer:the people disagree with national exams because because the quality of education does not just depend on the national exam. Further, the national exam only measures a small portion of students' competence in specific subjects, and does not measure students' competences throughout the semester.