EXAMPLE 1
The question is based on the following passage.
Around 2.8 million Indian students sat university examinations from the end of August to September 13 as the country approached the grim milestone of 5-million total COVID-19 cases. Despite pleas from civil society to defer examinations, including by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, a Supreme Court ruling on August 17 gave the government the green light to keep the original schedule for the engineer and medical colleges entrance exams.
The JEE and the NEET, as university exams for those two careers are called, are India’s most competitive — they sprawl industries of their own, with preparation courses generating millions of dollars annually. The court bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan said that “the career of the students cannot be put on peril for long, and a full academic year cannot be wasted.” The court will not hear any further petitions regarding postponing future exam dates.
According to the Ministry of Education, 74 percent of the students registered to the first of the JEE took the exam, while an above 80-percent attendance was observed for the NEET exam. Students are now gearing up for the second stage of the JEE (the JEE Advanced), which will take place on September 27. Protests against the exam date have dwindled since the Supreme Court decision.
Manve, Vishal Yashoda. (2020). Millions of Indian Students Sit University Entrance Exams After Government Disregards Protests to Postpone Them. Accessed on July 18, 2020 from https://globalvoices.org/2020/09/15/millions-of-indian-students-sit-university-entrance-exams-after-government-pushes-back-protests-to-postpone-them/.
The author’s attitude towards the civils’ protest regarding the exam schedule is ….
a. critical
b. positive
c. objective
d. subjective
e. informative
Jawaban: E
Pembahasan:
Soal menanyakan sikap penulis mengenai protes masyarakat tentang jadwal ujian yang dibahas pada teks.
Berdasarkan topik bahasan pada masing-masing paragraf, terlihat jelas bahwa penulis menyajikan informasi mengenai protes yang dilakukan oleh masyarakat dan sikap pemerintah terkait jadwal ujian masuk universitas. Jadi, dapat disimpulkan bahwa sikap penulis adalah informatif sehingga pilihan E tepat.