Students’ Experiences on Taking Final Examination Before and During COVID-19 Pandemic

Covid-19 is a new disease that has never existed and appeared in any place of the world. the effect of Covid-19 virus has changed a lot of systems in the world including education and learning processes. The process of learning while usually using face-to-face learning become an online learning method, because of that the examination process must be held through online exams using the internet media such as zoom and google meet. The purpose of this study is to find out the students’ experiences on taking final examinations before and during covid 19 pandemic at UIN Ar-Raniry University Banda Aceh. A qualitative approach with structured interviews is used in this study, in selecting the participants it was used a purposive sampling technique. for the participant, There are eight students of English language department in the study and nine interview questions. The results showed that the first research question indicate that students prefer taking examination during than before covid-19 pandemic, because students feel no pressure and no burden in following the examinations process and for the second research question indicate that there is one similarity and one difference in taking final examination before and during covid-19 pandemic, for the similarity that only on the level of difficulty and for the differences that only on the implementation of examinations process.