Maximizing Reading Strategies: Helping Students in Facing National Examination of English Subject

Abstract

The objectives of this research are firstly to define the best way to introduce to the students the use of various reading strategies in answering English test in National Examination (henceforth called UN) and secondly to investigate whether or not the use of those reading strategies can improve students’ score in facing UN. In this research, quantitative method, in the form of quasi-experimental was used by using one group of pre-test and post-test design. The population of this research was all the ninth grade students at SMP Negeri 11 Kota Gorontalo, Indonesia. 40 students were chosen as sample in this research by using purposive sampling technique. In this research, the data were collected from students’ test score based on UN test-model in both pre-test and post-test. Then the data were analyzed by using t-test. The result shows that the students’ test score of doing UN test model is statistically increased significantly.

Keywords: EFL Test, Reading Strategy, National Examination