Placement Tests Placement tests are intended to provide information which will help to place students at the stage

of the teaching program most appropriate to their abilities. The example of this placement test used to assign students to classes at different levels. The placement tests which are most successful are those constructed for particular situations. They depend on the identification of the key features at different levels of teaching in the institution. Placement test divided into two parts: 1. Pre-test is preliminary test administered to determine a students baseline knowledge or preparedness for an educational experience or course of the study. 2. Selection test is the test to select the student that has fulfilled in the certain condition. The candidate or student will be accepted or rejected. Such as, SPMB test. Achievement test Achievement test is a test which is giving to know how much the material that the students have already achieved after joining the learning process/ instruction. The purpose of this test is being to establish how successful individual students, groups of students, or the courses themselves have been in achieving objectives. There are five kinds of achievement test: 1. Formative test is criterion referenced test to evaluate the success of the student in learning process, so it can be used to improve the process of the learning to complete necessary of student. For instance, the students do the exercise every chapter of the book and teachers make a correction to every student. If the student not comprehend yet to material, the teacher will remedial the subject. 2. Summative test is the test to evaluate the result of learning process of student in the end of the course. For example, the passing of the subject in final exam of the student, as the base to determine the success of the student learning process. 3. Post-test is a test given after a lesson or a period of instruction to determine what the students have learned. 4. Final achievement tests are those administered at the end of a course of study. They may be written and administered by ministries of education, official examining boards, or by members of teaching institutions. 5. Progress achievement tests are intended to measure the progress that students are making. Since progress is towards the achievement of course objectives, these tests too should relate to objectives. Diagnostic test Diagnostic test is the test to diagnose the problem of the learning process of the student, to know the strength and weaknesses of the students. To know the difficulty study of the students, so the teacher can decide the material or planning that will suppose to do. The test to provide in order to know the teacher provide the material is relevant or not, the teacher teaching style is good or not. For example, the teacher gives some quiz to student to know how far student covered the material every subtopic. Proficiency Tests Proficiency tests are designed to measure peoples ability in a language regardless of any training they may have had in that language. The content of a proficiency test is based on a specification

of what candidates have to be able to do in the language in order to be considered proficient. Proficient means having sufficient command of the language for a particular purpose. There are other proficiency tests which do not have an occupation or course of study in mind. For instance, Cambridge examinations and the Oxford EFL examinations, the function of these tests is to show whether candidates have reached a certain standard with respect to certain specified abilities. Though there is no particular purpose in mind for the language, these general proficiency tests should have detailed specifications saying just what it is that successful candidates will have demonstrated that they can do. All users of a test can then judge whether the test is suitable for them, and can interpret test results.