The Comparison of Students’ Reading Comprehension Between Natural Science and Social Science Students at State Senior High School 1 Tapung

The purpose of this study is to know the comparison of students’ reading comprehension in descriptive text between natural science and social science students at State senior High School 1 Tapung. The total population of this research was 210 students which consisted of seven classes, the researchers took 20% of the population as the sample by stratified random sampling. The design of this research was quanitative used comparative research. In collecting the data, the researchers distributed a reding comprehension test based on the indicators. After analyzing the data, the researchers found that that there was a significant difference of reading comprehension between natural science and social science students on reading descriptive text comprehension at the tenth grade of State Senior High School 1 Tapung. It was considered by t obtained = 3.329 that was higher than t-table either at 5% = 2.021 or 1% = 2.704. It means that Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected. From the research finding, it showed that there was a significant difference in reading comprehension of descriptive text between natural science and social science students at the tenth grade of State Senior High School 1 Tapung.