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The study aims to analyze and evaluate the questions of the final exams of the departments of Faculty of Basic Education / Salahaddin University - Erbil, the limitation of the study represents the final exam questions for the academic year (2016-2017). The researcher has used the descriptive method in both the survey and the analytical. The population of the study is all the final theoretical examination questions that were set by the teachers at this faculty for the end of the academic year (2016-2017) / first setting. Then the researcher randomly selected (15) test question papers for each of the scientific and literal departments which are (6) departments and they are distributed over (4) coursework stages thus it becomes (90) exams (tests) and their percentage of (51.72%) which is represented Sample of the study, in order to investigate the aims, the researcher has designed a special form, to be used as a criterion for the analysis of the exam questions, which were formed from all the levels of the cognitive field according to Bloom's pyramid, for each group contents are described, to verify the validity of the tool, it was presented to a group of experts and specialists in the field of curriculum and teaching methods as jury members, and after analyzing the views of the researcher, she extracted the relative rates of each element ranging from (89% -90%) of levels of cognitive goals. In order to find out the reliability of the study, the researcher took a random sample of 15% of the questions paper to be analyzed by her according to the cognitive level twice and with a different time about (4) weeks to find the researcher's reliability work during this time, as well as then the researcher asked other to another analyst so as to analyze it according to the specific criterion of analysis, after that the researcher created and find out the proportion of agreement between her work with the other analyst by using the equation Scott, methods and data analyzing in this research are processed according to the SPSS social science portfolio, the most important findings of the search results is that, the final exams in the College of Basic Education at the University of Salahaddin for the academic year in the first setting focused mostly on the levels of the first three levels of Bloom's cognitive knowledge of memory, understanding and application, and we find that a small percentage of final exam questions focused on Level of analysis, synthesis and evaluation, and based on these findings of the current study some recommendations and suggestions are presented. (Published abstract)