In this article ways of constructing items in reading tests are demonstrated. The investigation of the effect of item test characteristics on the difficulty of reading comprehension item often involves an analysis of various variables including passage features, question type features and question format variables.The study is based on describing the process of developing an academic reading ability test undertaken as a class project and to evaluate its authenticity. The basic purpose of the test is to develop the ability of designing and developing a language test of the students of a class of English language teaching. Thus, in this way along with the learning of the principles of language testing and assessment, the students have also been given a practical experience of designing and developing a test.