Candidate academicians' attitudes towards foreign language examination

Foreign Language Examination is taken by candidates who aim to be accepted to graduade and PhD programs and taken by general practitioners who try to pass TUS (The Examination of Majoring in Medicine) to have a major in Medical Science. The purpose of this study is to investigate the candidate academicians' attitudes towards Foreign Language Examination. Forty-two candidates participated in this study and the data were gathered through two open ended questionnaires and analyzed by means of content analysis technique. The first questionnaire was designed to find out the candidates' general impressions about Foreign Language Exam and the second one was designed to learn the factors affecting the candidates' attitudes towards Foreign Language Examination. Results of the study showed that candidate academicians have negative attitudes towards Foreign Language Examination. Besides, the findings of the study revealed that some improvements related to content, style and reliability and validty of the exam need to be done so as to make the exam more positive and practical for the candidates. Key words: Foreign Language Examination, attitude, candidate academician, content and style, realiability and validty.