An Analysis of English Final Examination Test Items at The Seventh Grade of SMP Negeri 1 Blangpidie

Abstract

The aims of this study are to analyze the difficulty level, discrimination index, validity, reliability of English final examination test items of grade VII in semester 2 of SMP Negeri 1 Blangpidie in the academic year of 2014-2015. The writer used a descriptive quantitative method. The research subject of this study is the regular class of seventh grade students which consists of 60 members. The data were collected through document analysis. Based on the result of analyzing data, the difficulty level is at mean 0.21 classified as difficult. Afterwards, the discrimination index is at mean 0.15 classified as poor. Then, validity is at mean 0.348 belongs to low validity. And then, reliability is at mean 0.128 and categorized as low reliability. In other words, based on the analyzed data by using the difficulty level, discrimination index, validity and reliability the test items of English final examination in semester 2 of SMP Negeri 1 Blangpidie at academic year of 2014/2015 in the class VII categorized difficult, not able to distinguish between high and low students achievement, not yet considered as valid and reliable test items