A good test
Decide if the following examples fulfil the three criteria for a good test mentioned above.
1 It is the day when new students arrive at your school. When you chat to them,
they seem to be very different in level. You give them a placement test to decide
which level class they should go into. Everyone gets a mark between 63 and 67
out of 100.
2 You set a test for your class using material from the next three units of the book
that they will be studying over the next month.
3 Your students have been studying a balanced course of skills and language
Improvement work for the last ten weeks. For the end-of-term test, you have
asked each student to write you five essays. It is now midnight and you have the
pile of essays in front of you.