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exams , in a meeting with Registration and Exam Coordinator, a committee is

formed to decide on the Person-in-Charge of Exam Premise (Penanggung Jawab
TempatUjian - PJTU) and Person-in-Charge of Exam Location (Penanggung

Jawab Lokasi Ujian- PJLU), in accordance with QA system manuals (Simintas).
With regard to exam committee , UPBJJ Bogar appoints one of its staffs to
be the secretary of PJLU. The task of the secretary is to help PJLU in

administration of examination in the location. A week before the exams, the

committee arranges exam materials for twenty student for each room. Exam
materials are prepared soon after they have been received from UT Head Office.
The materials are submitted by Registration and Exam to PJTU in districts or

cities outside UPBJJ Bogor one day before the exams. PJTU is responsible to

take the materials to districts or cities where the exams are to take place. One
hour before the exams, the materials are submitted by Registration and Exam
Coordinator to PJTUIPLJU in the locations designated by UPBJJ Bogor.

For new students, two or three days before the exams, UPBJJs carry out
Study Orientation (Orientasi Studi Mahasiswa Baru - OSMB) to remind them of

exam regulations and ways to fill in the answer sheets (Lembar Jawaban Ujian -
LJU). Each exam location is monitored by Head of UPBJJ and Head of Sub-Unit

of Administration. Implementation of examination is concluded by an evaluation
by the Exam Committee. Afterward , UPBJJs send the results and report of exam

implementation to UT's Head Office.
Other tasks of UPBJJs are to evaluate self-assignment (Tug as Mandiri -

TM) , practice assignments, tutorial assignments, PKM , PKP, final examinations,
and end-of program assignments. Other tasks are to check the results of TM and

send them to exam centre at Head Office (TM has been removed since 2006).
Marking objective tests is done by computer at UT Head Office to make it

faster. However, manual marking of essays by academic staff posed certain
problems due to huge number of students yet limited number of staff. It caused

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