<![CDATA[The policy of National Examination (NE) standardisation has caused schools to be trapped in apractical effort to help student to be passed, focussing on merely repetitive test practices of examinationsubjects. Learning has been considered not as a process of developing or maturing, but aprocess to gain high grades and to pass the NE. As a consequence, teaching-learning process hasresulted in fear of failing the NE for studets. Teachers have also been stressed and depressed,because on one hand they have cultivated social empathy, but on the other hand, they have beenforced to engage in practices even they have not believed in, and in search for ‘bypasses’ for thesake of students’ successful in NE. Therefore, the policy of standardisation of passing grades inthe NE should be changed to reflect the spirit of decentralization and regional autonomy, and theappreciation of diversity of school qualities and capacities for teaching-learning.Keywords: Policy, National Examination, pass, fear.]]>
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