Do we truly have to construct writing assessment in National Examination?National examination has mainly been government concern to generate qualifiedgraduates after going through learning activities at school. This important test is designed in suchways; therefore, the items produced have passed through some essential processes which ensurethe quality of the items. Relating to the English subect, the teachers are given few guidelineswhat to teach. The materials are always those which will appear in National Examination. Theteachers, therefore, have clear instructions which are able to be developed and to be applied intoeffective methods and meaningful activities. !tandar "elulusan siswa #!$%& are guidelines to provide the teacher materials that willshow up in National Examination. 't is education national standard minimun for the graduates. 'nother words, it is some s"ills and "nowledge obtained after learning activities. The students willnot be passed and graduated from the school if they have not acquired competence as written in!$%. This!$%, lateron, willbespecifiedtobe(ore(ompetenceand)asic(ompetence.*ccording to !$%, some s"ills such as listening, spea"ing, reading, and writing are necessary tobe taught to the students included the specific topics.+ne focus for this topic is writing as in !$% and relate to National Examination. Thestudentslearntowrite, becausethiss"ill canencouragestudentstobemoreproductiveandcreative in language competence. This s"ill can improve students, ability in expressing their idea,opinions or feelings inwrittenform. 't helps toconsolidatetheir graspof vocabularyandstructure, and complements the other language s"ills. !o, writing is necessary to learn by thestudents. 'f the students are able in writing s"ill, it means that they can produce a language. Theycanexpress themselves withtheir abilityinvocabulary, structures, andtheother languagecomponents on their essay to gain the information. The writer believes that writing ability caninfluence the others language s"ills. The ability to write is fundamental aim in language learning.-riting has an important role in language competence.'n !$%, the writing is also clearly stated including what to teach to the students. .orexample, the !$% for English in !enior /igh !chool requires the students to be able to expressinterpersonal and transactional written text both formally and informally, to write also in form ofgenres such as recount, narrative, procedure, descriptive, news item, and others. The goals havealso been set such as arranging umbled sentences into meaningful and correct paragraph #forgenres& and filling the blan" to the short text. These goals, later on, are items that will be appearinNational Examination. The questioncomes upif the National Examinationconsists of0ultiple(hoices, howcanwereallymeasurethewritingtest1 *lthoughthe!$% statesthewriting along with what to teach, the national examination does not include the particular writingtest. Even if the national examination includes some items which require the test ta"er to arrangethe sentence and to fill in the blan" to the short text, the test ta"er only has to choose the rightanswer, thereisnowritingat all. 'nfact, theseitemsarefor readingtest, not writingtest.)ecause if it is writing test, there should be items that ma"e the students express their idea oronly arrange the paragraph by writing the answer on answer sheet.