Bogor agricultural university student’s characteristics based on their national examination score and gpa

Abstract

National examination (un) has been established as a standard to pass high school since 2002 compentency during high school. It indicated an assumption that good un score would provide good achievement in college as well. Student’s achievement at university is indicated by gpa (grade point average). Theoretically, un score and gpa should have high positive correlation. However, this is not automatically true. In 2010, more than 30% student who had high un score got gpa tpb less than 2.50. This percentage tends to decrease in 2011 and 2012. By using pearson correlation test, there was a significance correlation between un score and gpa tpb even the coefficient was weak and positif. Based on multiple correspondence analysis in the last three yearswith a purpose to improve the quality of education in indonesia and measure student’s, characteristics of student who had high un score and high gpa tpb were from faculty fateta, fmipa, fem, and fema, from department with high popularity level such as itp, stk, agb, ilkom, gizi, tin, sil, and eksyar, and came from banten, dki jakarta, and west java. Whereas the characteristics students who had high un score but got low gpa tpb were from veterinary faculty, enrolled ipb through utmi, and had higher education and higher income family background.