Overview of the English exam formats in the National High school Graduation Exams and their influence on English writing skills.

Abstract

The article focuses on synthesizing the forms of the National High school graduation examinations (HGEs) for the purpose of expounding the influence of multiple-choice testing format on
teaching and learning English writing skills at high schools. Due to the changing trend of the exam question format over the past ten years, in which multiple-choice testing format has been improved to be domination compared to the written style, student’s writing skills are somewhat affected, a great variety of students seemed to neglect training writing ability, but solely focus on test-taking skill, that is doing multiple - choice format practice.