

This study aims to determine whether or not prospective physics teachers have misconceptions in compiling HOTS cognitive questions. The role of teachers is very important in improving students' high-level skills. Higher order thinking skills (HOTS) are very important skills to be taught to students in the 21st century. This means that students of class VIII A Junior High School 05 Bengkulu City have not been able to work on HOTS problems on vibration and wave material. The results showed that the ability of students of class VIII A Junior High School 05 Kota Bengkulu in working on HOTS problem items on vibration and wave material was in a very low category with a total average of 24.90 of the HOTS issues given. Calculate the individual grade of each student of grade VIII A Junior High School 05 Bengkulu City.

The data was analyzed using descriptive percentages. This research used quantitative deriftive research design. One of the things that is applied to improve the ability to think at a high level is to submit tests for HOTS ( Higher Order Thinking Skills) problem, Given to students to know how much students are able to do and solve problems not only completing but students are required to understand the problems given. High-level thinking skills are not only established in the cognitive aspect but are able to improve the skills and effective aspects of students.

The results showed: (1) 100% valid test questions, (2) high question reliability, (3) good problem differentiation power, (4) the difficuly level of the question 77,77% categorized as moderate and 2 question 22,23% are categorized as difficult, (5) there are 2 questions with one of the answer options do not work. The number of UN mathematics questions in 2018 in the odd semester VIII class material consisted of 12 questions with 25% including LOTS types and 75% including HOTS types. The test was taken from the 2018 math UN questions in odd semester VIII grade material including HOTS type. The data collection technique used is a test.

The research was conducted at SMP Muhammadiyah 4 Surabaya and SMP Negeri 13 Surabaya for students in class VIII. This type of research is a descriptive study. This study aims to describe the quality of the 2018 Mathematics National Examination (UN) in the HOTS types at the junior high level in terms of the level of validity, reliability, problem differentiation power, level of difficulty and distractor.
