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in the academic year of 20082009. Based on her research, the test is valid. However, the test is reliable and classified as medium items in term of their
difficulty level. Based on the previous researches, it is crystal clear that so many
researches have been conducted to analyze a test. All of them tried to analyze a test without considering the curriculum which always changes. Because of that,
the writer would like to analyze a test from the different way, not only from its validity, reliability and practicality but also based on its content standard.
2.2 Review of the related theories
In analyzing the test, the writer will use some basic theories to support my analysis. These theories are related with education and making a good test.
2.2.1 Definition of curriculum
Since the real purpose of education is not to have the instructor perform certain activities but to bring about significant changes in the students pattern of
behavior, it becomes important to recognize that any statements of objectives of the school should be a statement of changes to take place in the students.From that
definition, it may mean that a study in schools, colleges, universities and some other institutions should relevant to the curriculum.
Curriculum means a specific learning program. It describes the teaching, learning and assessment materials which available for a given course of
study. It is used to transmit or deliver knowledge to students in teaching learning process by some effective methods. In this sense curriculum is not a physical
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thing, but rather the interaction of teachers, students and knowledge. In other words, curriculum is what actually happens in the classroom and what people do
to prepare and evaluate. Up to now, there have been several English curricula, such as the 1968
curriculum, the 1975 one, the 1984 one, etc. These curricula have been used with various approaches, namely the structural and communicative approaches. The
aim of changing the curricula is to encourage and improve the students’ English mastery. The standards achieved should be that can be useful for the next, either
when they apply for a job or when they want to continue their study. The national development in the field of education is an effort to
develop Indonesian generation to be more intelligent and to increase the quality of the Indonesian community. In conducting the national education, the government
has to concern with the development of science, technology, and culture. As we see the 2006 English curriculum of SMA is based on the
communicative approach in the teaching of English as a first foreign language in Indonesia. The 2006 curriculum which is called as school based competence
KTSP is the development of 2004 curriculum. This curriculum emphasizes communicative competence in learning English. It is designed based on the
content standard SI and graduate competence standard SKL which is determined by the government to guarantee the achievement of national education
purposes. The goal of curriculum reform is to increase the quality of education, so that the students who graduate from a certain level of education would master the
required knowledge and skills.
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School based curriculum is an operational curriculum which is formed and practiced by each school in Indonesia
www.puskur.netincsmaBahasaInggris.pdf. Consequently, the curriculum used in a school may be different from one to another school. The curriculum can be
defined as a concept of curriculum in which the form and practice depends on each institution. The different form and practice depends on the needs of each
schools but still based on the standard curriculum given by the government as the model for the school.
2.2.2 Anderson revised Bloom’s Taxonomy
