Evaluation of testing english language: secondary examination of Bangladesh

Abstract

English is the compulsory subject in both secondary and higher secondary level. So, to get admission in the college a student needs to pass in both English 1st paper and 2nd paper in SSC examination. Unfortunately in most of the cases it has been seen that, many students do well in the SSC examination but they can not give the equal performance in real life situation. Therefore it is really important to evaluate whether language testing in the secondary level going in the right path or not. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the language testing of Bangladesh considering different theories of testing and evaluation, to evaluate items of language testing and also to discuss the opinions of students and teachers regarding language testing in secondary level.