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Learning certainly requires effective and comprehensive evaluation or assessment for students and can differentiate the progress of the process and learning outcomes achieved by students. The research here aims to examine evaluation or assessment in English language learning. The methods used are school observations, interviews with teachers, and document analysis. This research examines the objectives of assessment from three aspects, namely diagnostic assessment, which is divided into two types, non-cognitive and cognitive, then explains the objectives and functions of formative and summative assessments of students. Observation results show that the assessment in the Merdeka curriculum in the first class of English at SMKN 5 Gowa is divided into three assessments, namely, diagnostic, formative, and summative