Criteria For Good Test Questions (Analysis of Writing of Islamic Junior High School Exam Questions for Arabic Language Subjects at the Ta'mirul Islam Islamic Boarding School)

Abstract

The aim of this research was to analyze the odd exam question in Arabic subject to the ninth-grade students at Boarding School of Ta’mirul Islam Surakarta in academic year 2020/2021 which include the validity, power of difficulty, discrimination power, and answer patterns. This method used in the research was a descriptive quantitative method. The result of the analysis showed that the quality which was seen from the 1) validity there were 11 or 27,5% questions which were valid and the rest were 29 or 72,5% of questions were invalid. 2) from the level of difficulty, there were 4 or 10% of questions which average level of difficulty, and there were 32 or 90% of questions which had difficult and easy level. 3) From the discrimination power there were 10 or 25% of questions which had good discriminations and 30 or 75% of questions which had low and negative. 4) from the answer patterns, it is known that in general all distributor in the question were unfunctional properly