An Item Analysis of English Summative Test for the Twelfth-Grade Students of SMA Darul Ahsan Kabupaten Tangerang in the Second semester of the 2019/2020 Academic Year

tri suwartini; drs. h. bahrul hasibuan, m.ed.; nita kaniadewi, m. pd;

M. Lukmanudin Lubis. NIM; 1301065105. An Item Analysis of English Summative Test
for the Twelfth-Grade Students of SMA Darul Ahsan Kabupaten Tangerang in the Second semester of the 2019/2020 Academic Year. The Study Programme of English Education, the School of Teacher Training and Education, the University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka, Jakarta 2020.
The aim of this study was to find out whether or not the items of English summative
test for the twelfth grade students of SMA Darul Ahsan, Jayanti, Kab. Tangerang in the second semester of the 2019/2020 Academic Year, had good quality.
In finding out the quality of the items, the writer has conducted a quantitative
analysis and descriptive qualitative method.
The results of data analysis showed 5 difficult items (13%), 16 moderate items
(42%), 5 easy items (13%), and 12 very easy items (32%). The discriminating power
showed 32 maintained or accepted items (80%), 6 items should be revised (15%) and
the rest 2 items were discarded (5%). The results of data analysis on the distracters of the
weak items in discriminating power showed 8 effective distracters (33%) and the rest 16
ineffective distracters (67%).
Based on the description above that from 40 items the writer found only 32 items
(80%) categorized accepted. It can be concluded that the English summative test for the second semester of twelfth grade students at SMA Darul Ahsan, Jayanti, Kab. Tangerang in the 2019/2020 academic year had satisfactory quality.