The Minister of Education and Culture (Mendikbud), Nadiem Makarim, will replace the National Examination (Ujian Nasional or UN) with Minimum Competency Assessment and Character Survey in 2021. He argues that the UN tends to focus on rote learning rather than students' actual competencies. Furthermore, the average UN score has been consistently low, not exceeding 60.
The accumulated average UN score from 2015 to this year is only 52.43. The trend over the past five years shows a decline. Only in 2019 was there an increase of 1.4%, from 48.35 to 49.05. The sharpest decline occurred in 2017, at 9.1%, dropping from 55.26 in 2016 to 50.25.
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