The Physics Questions in Student Selection Examination and Physics Curriculum and the Effect of Those Questions in Students’ Success in Turkey

Success of high school students in solving physics questions of student selection examination (ÖSS) that
has to be taken by high school students before entering the Turkish universities have been investigated with regard
to these questions to be solved by students and suitability to high school physics curriculum and factors affecting
students success. In this purpose a questionnaire has been distributed to undergraduate students of Necatibey
Faculty of Education and Faculty of Science and Literature of Balıkesir University in Turkey, especially to volunteer
students (a total of 194 students) from Biology, Mathematics, Computer, Science Teacher Education programs and
Physics departments. In addition to this, more than 30 high school physics teachers and university professors have
been interviewed one to one to ask their opinion about this subject in order to investigate the results. Students and
teachers criticized new ÖSS examination system and made some recommendations.