(Quiz) Exposition Text

The communicative purpose of analytical exposition text is ...

• to persuade the readers or listeners that something is the case.

• to retell past events

• to give steps of doing something

• to tell the newsworthy event(s) of the day

What do we call the last paragraph of Analytical Exposition Text?

• Recomendation

• Complication

• Argument

• Reiteration

What is the generic structure of the Analytical Exposition text?

• Orientation - Events - Reorientation

• Thesis - Arguments - Reiteration

• Thesis - Arguments - Recommendation

• Identification - Description

The argument and point of view in analytical exposition text have to be supported by .....

• relevant information.

• data and relevant information.

• facts and relevant information.

• facts and general information.

Stop corruption: abolish the national exam.

The underlined word can be replaced with ....

• end

• avoid

• abort

• forbidding

In the Indonesian educational system, everybody cheats. Or at least that's what I came to believe during nearly two years as a visiting English teacher in local high schools in Kalimantan and Sumatra.

What can you infer after reading the paragraph?

• The writer thinks that Indonesia is a troubled country

• He is an English teacher and hates cheating

• He was enjoying the local schools in Kalimantan and Sumatra

• He thinks that cheating is really common in Indonesia

During my first month in the classroom, I helped proctor an exam. As the co-teacher passed out the test, he read the rules: Do your own work, don't cheat.

The underlined word means ...

• someone who helps students to find the correct answer

• a person who leads or directs students on a journey

• a person who shows and explains the interesting things at an examination

• someone who appointed to supervise students at an examination

During my first month in the classroom, I helped proctor an exam. As the co-teacher passed out the test, he read the rules: Do your own work, don't cheat. He then sat down, the exam began and the students promptly started cheating. They passed notes, talked across the aisle and even wrote on one another's test papers. Baffled, I looked to the teacher. He shrugged, as if to say, 'It is what it is. 'It turned out that cheating in the school was common. Other teachers I knew placed in state, vocational and religious high schools from Aceh to Kupang, reported similar episodes at their sites. One teacher in Palembang recounted an instance in which he had caught students sharing answers during a test. When he threatened to punish them they just laughed in his face.

The following statements are TRUE, except ...

• The writer was a proctor and saw students cheating easily

• Cheating was also happened in Aceh to Kupang

• The teacher was caught by Police due to helping students at examination

• The local teacher just neglect the students who were cheating

Granted, classroom norms vary from nation to nation and a foreigner could easily misconstrue cooperation for cheating. In Indonesia, education is more collaborative than it is in the United States, where learning is regarded as an individual pursuit. Nonetheless, by any definition, cheating in Indonesian schools is rampant.

The underlined word means ...

• salah arah

• salah pengertian

• salah semua

• salah satunya

As an outsider, my scope is limited. But during two years working with local students and educators, I saw that cheating wasn't nourished by culture or character or anything inherent ' but largely by a misguided policy: the high school national examination. The Education and Culture Ministry recently won praise for canceling the exam in elementary schools, and it should ride that momentum to discard the high school one as well.

In a nation as diverse as Indonesia, it is brutally unfair to predicate graduation on a uniform, standardized test. When it came time for my students to take the dreaded test, which every 12th grader in every province must pass to graduate high school, I snuck a peek at the English questions. They were advanced, at least relative to my students' English abilities. If even half of them could pass the section, I would have been surprised.

Yet, somehow, they did pass; every one of them. It turned out my school's flawless performance was hardly abnormal. Last year, the education ministry reported that 99.48 percent of students nationwide passed the national exam. It brushed off allegations that cheating had occurred.

Why does the writer say that he is an outsider? Because ....

• he is a native Indonesian

• he doesn't like Indonesia culture

• he is a foreigner

• he is not living in Indonesia