students pass the National Exam or not. The Government of Indonesia decides the lowest score is 4.26 to pass. If the students are not able to reach score at least
4.33 each subjects, they will not graduate. Based of above description National Exam is the test which is conducted
annually by the Government, especially Ministry of Education its scheduled at the end of the second semester, in what extend, the result is going to promote or to
graduate the students. National Exam Achievement can be seen from the scores of Students’
Achievement in the National Exam as the result of students’ learning achievement.
Finally, the scores of the National Exam will be added in the students’ Surat Keterangan Hasil Ujian Nasional SKHUN. It can be students’ reference to
continue their study to higher level education or to look for a job.
2. The Try-Out Exam Achievement
Try-Out Exam as a summative test which is categorized teacher made test, because it is made by English teachers of several schools in one group of certain
area. According to Wilmar Tinambunan the summative test is intended to show
the standard which the students have now reached in relation to other students at the same stage.
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In this research the students are the third grade students of
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Drs. Wilmar Tinambunan, Evaluation of Student Achievement, Dikti Diknas Jakarta: 1988, p.9
Khazanah Kebajikan Vocational school. This test is carried out to know if the objective of curriculum has been achieved or not.
Hence, The Try-Out Exam is standardized test which is made by English teachers due to a teacher does not only think of behaviors, but also of ways of
thinking and judging.
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It is important because students must do it by themselves during the test. Furthermore, Dewey mentions the ways of thinking, judging,
perceiving values are not given naturally but those can be occurred by replacing the reflex are concept with a circle of experiences.
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By doing the Try-Out test students have experience how to deal with this summative test. The Try-Out test is
intended to make the students get accustomed to do the test. Try-Out Exam as one of school level assessment is given to make students’ functional such as
structural, material and behavioral trained.
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In this case, students can get a special skill in understanding, attitude appreciation, efficiency and effectiveness in
doing the test. This new skill caused by the experience or the practice. Generally, the material of Try-Out Exam and National Exam are alike. So
the Try-Out Exam is a kind of test that motivate and direct student learning since students base their study of course material on what they expect to be asked to on
test, and their skill develop accordingly.
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Therefore the result of students’ test in National Exam will be better that in the Try-Out Exam due to they have
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Australian Journal of Educational Technology, Visualisig learning goals with the Quail Model
, p.2, 2004. httpwww.AJET20Botturi.
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Vincent A. Antara, Jr. and Sandra L. Stacki, Middle School:Curriculum Instruction and Assessment
, Information Age Publishing, Greenwich, Connecticut 2002 p.5
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Psikologi Kependidikan:Perangkat Sistem Pengajaran Modul, PT Remaja Rosdakarya, Bandung p.159
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Op.Cit., p.7
experience already. In fact, The Try-Out Exam is not conducted nationally. To do it, the schools must have enough budget and time to prepare it.
In line with the above description, the Try-Out Exam is Pre-Summative test because the test is given to students before they follow the National Exam.
Perhaps students who have done the try-out test are ready to face National Exam. Factually, Khazanah Kebajikan Vocational High School formally conducts
the Try-Out test once, but the English teacher arrange the test which is accordance with Try-Out test more than three times. The teacher and students always discuss
the result and the content of the test to find out and to strengthen their weakness in English especially in each part of part of speech. Due to having good experiences
it makes students there are accustomed to cope with this kind of test. Finally, whenever they face the National Exam they are more confident than before. It can
be seen through their increment of the scores of their informally Try-Out tests.
B. Conceptual Framework
