A Comparative Study on The Comprehensive Difficulty of Junior High School National Examination

Abstract

Mathematics’ National examination is conducted annually in all countries. Including Indonesia and China. but there are only a few researchers who make observations about the difficulty of the national exams in each country. There is not even a paper comparing the national exams in 2 countries. So in this study, This article compares the comprehensive difficulty of the Nanjing and Nanning test mathematics’ National examination questions from the five difficulty factors of background factors, cognitive level, reasoning ability, calculation level, and knowledge content. The method in this research is a mix method, using qualitative and quantitative for maximum data analysis results. The results show that, in terms of background factors, the test questions of Nanning paper The comprehensive difficulty is higher than that of the Nanjing paper. In the other four factors, the comprehensive difficulty of the Nanjing paper is slightly higher than that of the Nanning paper. The comprehensive difficulty coefficient of the two sets of test papers is slightly larger in terms of the calculation level and the cognitive level. The set of test papers basically maintains a balance of difficulty in the five factors. Based on the results of the research.