Readability Of Higher Education Institutions Exam Basic Proficiency Test Turkish Questions

Readability is a measurable quantitative feature of texts. Readability gives information about how easy or difficult a text is to read. This information can help decide appropriate texts for courses and exams. There are 3 formulas, called Ateşman, Çetinkaya-Uzun, and Bezirci-Yılmaz, which are widely used in determining the readability of Turkish texts. The purpose of this study is to determine the readability of the Turkish questions in the Higher Education Institutions Exam, the Basic Proficiency Test conducted between 2019-2023 with Ateşman and Bezirci-Yılmaz formulas. The dataset consists of a total of 200 questions, 40 from each year, asked between 2019 and 2023. According to the findings, it was revealed that both formulas used in the study were consistent and the readability levels of the formulas were similar. According to the used formulas, it was observed that the questions in 2019 were the easiest and the test questions in 2021 were the most difficult to read. It has been determined that the number of questions in question types varies over the years, phonics questions are the question type with the easiest, and questions related to sentence meaning are the most difficult readability level. It was concluded that the questions were mainly at the difficult level according to the Ateşman formula, and at the academic level according to the Bezirci-Yılmaz formula.