Our Debate at Class

We have a lesson called Intensive English Conversation (IEC) at our school, and we ever have debate at class. Our group got motion: "National Examination is the best way to pass Senior High School" and we are as negative team^^ Here is our debate if we write it. (only my team's part^^)

I think national examination should be abolished because determining our success of the whole 3 years we've spent in senior high school just by passing the 6-day-exams isn’t a wise decision. Why? Well, We have some reasons for that.

1. National examination doesn’t guarantee that the students would do the test honestly by themselves. IT'S TRUE "THE STUDENTS DIDN’T DO THE TEST HONESTLY ALL BY THEMSELVES". They cheated by asking their friends, using mobile phone, and moreover depending on DEADLY MESSAGES that they didn’t even know who the sender were. What’s more, there weren’t a few students believed the messages and as result THEY FAILED THE EXAMINATION, MEANING LOSING THE WORTH OF THEIR 3-year-sacrifice. how pathetic, they used dirty tricks on THEIR OWN JUDGEMENT DAYS which hold all the hardworks and efforts of their whole 3 years! NOT SO DIFFERENT FROM GAMBLING. That’s lame, so where’s the value of all of their sacrifices? NOTHING, those sacrifices mean NOTHING when they hang their fate on the national examination and that goes for us too. OUR and OUR TEACHERS' SACRIFICES ARE WORTHLESS (when we are counting ourself on the national examination) IF THAT’S HOW IT IS.
2. Determining students' graduation from the results of national examination doesn’t resemble the true spirit of study. Why? Because I think we study because we wanna achieve our goals in the future. Yeah, I know that theory is important, but sadly when it goes to NATIONAL EXAM, we'll aim to pass the exam as if we go to school just to get good mark or maybe this kind of thought will pop in our head "MY FUTURE DEPENDS ON THE RESULT OF THIS NATIONAL EXAM SO I CAN’T FAIL NO MATTER WHAT". See the words NO MATTER WHAT, I think that’s the goal of the students who have to fight for their future by passing the national examination and that could lead them to legalize any kinds of way whether they are good or not, as long as they can pass the exam with good marks, they won’t care about it because none of us wants to fail and waste our time and sacrifices. I think that doesn’t resemble the true meaning of study at all.
3. National examination can’t be used to decide whether a certain student can pass or not because even if they can do well in the test by themselves and they are a clever student in their school, but for some reasons (can be a problem about the test sheet) they fail the test while the others pass it (dont care whether they cheated or not). AIN’T THAT UNFAIR? Yeah, THAT’S UNFAIR... Because though the government made the same standard in national but the security system in each school isn’t the same, so I can imagine how unfair that was, PLAYING AROUND WITH MARKS as if studying means nothing...

Now for my conclusion, i think national examination shuld be abolished because it isn’t an accurate device to decide whether a certain student can pass or not and there are some useless impacts caused by it just like what are stated above. even if it’s impossible for the government to abolish the national examination, then the government can continue it but shouldn’t use it as the determiner of students graduation, so the government can use the national examination only to measure the students' knowledge, not to determine their graduation. Graduation should be determined by the daily learing results at school, it’s FAIR and FAR MORE ACCURATE.

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Group 4 (Negative team)

Motion: National Examination is the best way to pass Senior High School

Members:

Firda Dwi Hartanti (07 – 3^rd speaker)

Made Angga Akwiditya (08 – 2^nd speaker)

Riyan Wicaksana Putra (10 – 1^st speaker)