As much as 12,745 Junior High School (SMP) students in South Jakarta will hold National Exam (UN), on Monday (5/4). However, those students who fail on UN, can get a chance to retest next year.

The distribution of National Exam texts from Education Department to sub rayon held on Saturday (5/2) at 7 AM guarded by police apparatus to prevent leak of the texts

Head of South Jakarta Education Sub-Department Regional 2, Budiana uttered, UN SMP is different with UN SMA which part of it has been Computer Based Tes t(CBT). For SMP, it is still manually paper based. But, according to her, this year UN is no longer as graduation standart but benchmark of school quality.

"For those student who fail on National Exam this year can get a restest next year," she explained, Saturday (5/2).

She mentioned from 102 schools, South Jakarta Eduaction Sub-Department Regional 2 divided the schools into 2 sub-rayons that is sub rayon 11 in SMPN 19 Jalan Bumi, Kebayoran Baru, for Kebayoran Baru Sub-Distrct and PAsar Minggu. And sub rayon 12 in SMPN 73 Tebet for Tebet Sub-District, Setiabudi, Mampang and Pancoran.

While 461 package B participants from 23 Community Learning Center (PKBM) will also hold UN located in SMKN 6 Jalan Joko Sutono, Kebayoran Baru.

"The distribution of National Exam texts from Education Department to sub rayon held on Saturday (5/2) at 7 AM guarded by police apparatus to prevent leak of the texts," he disclosed.