COGITIVE LEVEL O 2012 ATIOAL FIAL EXAMIATIO QUESTIOS OF THE IDOESIA SUBJECT

Abstract

Data showed that the decrease of ational Final Examination (UA) scores on Indonesiansubjects had not been investigating in-depth, but it must be responded by finding out the main problemand the solution. It was expected that there were many factors involved in the decrease of (UA)scores on Indonesian subjects in 2010. One of them is the unreadable questions of UA especially onIndonesian subjects. This research was done to find out one of alternative solution which is relatedwith analyzing the cognitive level in every item of the Indonesian subjects questions of UA. Thesamples of this research are 100 junior high school students in Surabaya, which are divided in to twoschool that are SMP 13 (50 students) and SMP Dharma Wanita (50 students). The result that wasachieved in this research was to know the type of both, the easy questions and the difficult one. Bydoing that, teacher know the question criteria which are easy or difficult for their students inpreparing the U especially Indonesian subjects.