Analyzing Teacher-Made Test of English Exam Questions at SMAN 1 Banda Aceh

This research analyzes the English summative examination for grade XI at SMAN 1 Banda Aceh. This quantitative research used a descriptive approach. The data was collected using the documentation method where the English exam questions, students’ answer sheets, answer keys, and a list of students’ names was collected. 250 students participated in the examination. Therefore, there were 250 answer sheets analyzed. The instrument analysis was done using IBM SPSS Statistics 25 and Microsoft Office Excel 2010. This research aims to answer the research questions about the level of difficulty and discrimination as well as to see the quality of multiple-choice questions based on the guidelines (or called norms) published by Puspendik Kemdikbud. The validity and reliability were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics 25 with results>0.005, categorized as valid, and the reliability range score of 0.82, categorized as highly reliable. The difficulty index, discrimination index, and norms were analyzed using Microsoft Office Excel. The result showed that the 17 items (57%) were categorized as average, indicated that the level of difficulty was average. The result of the discrimination index showed that 8 items (27%) were categorized as bad and 22 items (73%) categorized from average to excellent, which indicated that many question items need to be revised. Moreover, for the norms, it was found that they fulfilled the norms.