Language tests as one of the kinds of control of students’ knowledge and skills in the conditions of secondary school (based on the German language)

The article deals with the basic stages of preparing tests of the German language (the development of instructions) as one of the objective kinds of the monitoring of knowledge and learning skills of students of senior school in the conditions of secondary comprehensive school. There are analysed the challenges between the results of teaching the German language and the insufficiency of the scientific and methodological support by the means of the test control.