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The researchers observed that the Turkish teachers took and used the written exams from sites that show the common point of sharing and that the exams they prepared were also uploaded to these sites. These sites are quite popular among teachers, for example, an exam at the Seventh Class level has been downloaded forty thousand times. The purpose of this study is to determine the types of questions included in the written exam in Turkish education and their places in the stages of the cognitive process. The study is designed as a quality study based on document analysis. In the context of the study, the data were obtained by the examination of the first Turkish written examinations of the first semester of high school in the 2019-2020 educational year. From here, a total of a hundred Turkish written exams received from the sites egitimhane.com, hangisoru.com, informationelpazesi.com and dilbilgisi.net, which the Turkish teachers are widely applying, have been examined according to the subproblems. There was equal number of written studies included from each level of high school. Questions under the study were studied according to the types of questions and the dimensions of the cognitive process in the Updated Bloom Taksonomy. The Turkish exams are based on the student’s active use of mental processes, so taxonomy has only taken into account the dimensions of the cognitive process. The questions were discussed individually and compared with the table. The findings were confirmed by the expert. They examined the questions independently according to taxonomy. The lists were confirmed by the experts and researchers agreeing on the distribution of questions according to the taxonomy. According to the findings obtained, it has been shown that the written examinations used include different types of questions, but the question-type distribution is not balanced. In the exam, the most open end, classification, and already selected types of questions were emphasized; the least weighted are the puzzles, the emptiness filling and the right-fake types of questions. The examination of written exam questions according to the Updated Bloom Taksomosis shows that the exam represents thirteen stages of the cognitive process. The stages of the summary, comparison, organization, criticism, planning and production processes have not been represented in any question. The highest weight of the cognitive process is the recall, classification and execution of the stages.