Contoh Soal Tes Literasi Bahasa Inggris untuk SNBT 2023

More and more children are leaving school with little more than a basic knowledge of reading, writing and arithmetic and illiteracy is becoming a social problem once again.

With dropout rates of twenty-seven percent in high schools and fifty percent on colleges, the American education system is clearly in trouble; European dropout rates, though lower than those of the U.S. are rising too.

Various factors have been blamed for the apparent decline in education standards. Some people say that overcrowding and lack of discipline are major factors.

Other maintain the subjects like art and drama have been over emphasized at the expense of more practical subjects. The negative influence of television is frequently mentioned as a reason for growing illiteracy.

Many teachers and principal, however, insist that the problem is not a falling standards but of rising expectations on the part of parents and employers.

Whether or not standards in public school are falling, many parents feel that the only way to secure a good education for their children is to send them to private schools is growing steadily, despite the high tuition fees. In the U.S. for example, eleven percent of all school children attend private school, in France, over sixteen percent do so.

1. What is the text about?

(A) Problems in current educations systems

(B) Rising dropout rates in American public school

(C) Factors determining general education standard

(D) Comparison between the American and European education system

(E) Problems in education in European and American public school

(Jawaban yang benar adalah E).

2. Which of the following statement is not true about the educations of children in public schools?

(A) Many children quit from school.

(B) Dropout lack basic knowledge of reading and writing.

(C) Public school should offer more practical subjects.

(D) Dropout rates are rising.

(E) The dropout rate in European is lower than that in the U.S.

(Jawaban yang benar adalah C).

3. Which of the following is thought to be a factor causing the decline in educational standards?

(A) Discipline in school; is generally too strict.

(B) Teachers use too much television in class.

(C) There are too many pupils in the one class.

(D) Subjects like drama and art are neglected.

(E) Parents and employer expect too much to teachers.

(Jawaban yang benar adalah E).