PROBLEM FACED BY THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF MAN GONDANGREJO IN THE ANSWERING ENGLISH FINAL TEST FOR THE FIRST SEMESTER IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/ 2017

ABSTRACT Annisa Aulia Rohmah. 2017. Problem Faced by the Eleventh Grade Students of MAN Gondangrejo in the Answering English Final Test for the First Semester in Academic Year 2016/ 2017. Thesis. English Education Department. Islamic Education and Teacher Training Faculty. State Islamic Institute of Surakarta. Advisor : Fithriyah Nurul Hidayati, M. Pd. Keywords : Assessment, Language Testing, Studens’ Problem. The objectives of this research were to explore the problems faced by the eleventh grade studens of MAN Gondangrejo in the answering English final test for the first semester and the causes of the problems faced by the eleventh grade studens of MAN Gondangrejo in the answering English final test for the first semester in academic year 2016/ 2017. This research was discriptive study based on the analysis the difficulty level of the English final test item and the result of interview. The subject of the research was the English teacher and the eleventh grade students of MAN Gondangrejo. The techniques of collecting data were document analysis and interview. The researcher took 25 students’ work sheet randomly from the five classes to analyze and interviewed both of the teacher and students. The activity of data collection form an interactive process which was analyzing qualitative data as data collection, data reduction, data display, then conclusion drawing or verification. The result of the research showed as follow: 1) the students’ problems in the answering English final test for the first semester of eleventh grade students of MAN Gondangrejo as the test questions were too difficult for the students, test questions or intructios were ambiguous or confusing, students did not have enough time to thoughtfully complete the test, students felt overconfident, and students gave up during the test; 2) and the causes of the problems are students lack of vocabularies, less practice, less Motivation, less interest, suffer from some form of anxiety or stereotype, and the last students did not prepare appropriately