An Item Analysis of the English Try Out Test for The Twelfth Grade Students of SMA PKP Jakarta Islamic School to Face The National Final Examination in the 2016/2017 Academic Year

agustin dkk; drs. zuhad ahmad, m.pd.; dr. burhayani, m.pd;

FERNANDYA BIGENA YUKO. 1301065064. An Item Analysis of the English Try Out Test for The Twelfth Grade Students of SMA PKP Jakarta Islamic School to Face The National Final Examination in the 2016/2017 Academic Year. A paper. Jakarta: The Study Programme of English Language Teaching Programme, The School of Teaching Training and Education. The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka.2017.
The objective of this study is to know whether or not the English Try out test items for the twelfth grade students of SMA PKP Jakarta Islamic School has good quality in terms of the difficulty level, discriminating power, and effectiveness of distracters. The test has been held in SMA PKP Jakarta Islamic School pon February, 7th 2017.
The test of this study consist of 50 multiple choice items. The respondents of this research are 70 students which are divevd into 19 students of upper group, 32 students of medium group and 19 students of lower group. In this matter the upper group and the lower group as a sample of analysis.
The result of the analysis showed that from 50 items, there have been 8 items categorized easy, 30 items which are categorized are in the medium level, and 12 items which are categorized in the difficulty level. Based on the result of the difficulty level and discriminating power, it can be concluded that the English Try-out test in SMA PKP Jakarta Islmaic School have not fulfilled the criteria of a good quality.