STUDENTS' DIFFICULTIES IN READING RECOUNT TEXT 4.6

4.1.2.e                         Grammar test

Table 10. Correct and Incorrect answers of Grammar test

Number of items	Frequency
	X	Percentage %	Y	Percentage %
1	25	76%	8	24%
2	14	42%	19	58%
3	15	45%	18	55%
4	19	58%	14	42%
5	21	64%	12	36%
6	18	55%	15	45%
7	22	67%	11	33%
8	20	61%	13	39%
9	22	67%	11	33%
10	18	55%	15	45%
Average	19		14

Grammar test aims to know students’ difficulty of grammar. In this test type, researcher concluded the students had poor ability to comprehend the recount text, especially in grammatical and functional mastery. It seems from the student’s average correct answer score which was only 19 and 14 of students answered incorrectly. The average scores between correct and incorrect answers showed that the class had low grammatical mastery. From the data, the highest correct answer score was only 76% and scores of all items was about 60%. It proved that the students of this class had same level of grammar. It also indicated that students had some difficulties in reading recount text and also did not qualify the English subject minimal score standard (KKM).