above including motivation, interest, learning styles, method of teaching, and try- out exam among others.
Try-Out Exam is one of the factors which influence the result of the National Exam. Students who have already followed the Try-Out Exam usually
pass in the National Exam because they have experience to do the test. So they will be more familiar with variety of the test items such as direction, content, and
the language component to be tested. They are also able to predict what kind of items will be tested. It makes students more comfortable to face the National
Exam. In this condition, students’ tension reduced, finally, they can get better scores in the National Exam.
Khazanah Kebajikan Vocational High School is one of some Vocational High Schools that provided the Try-Out Exam for its third grade students. The
Principal believes students must have experience to do this kind of test before they cope with the real one, National Exam. Perhaps the students are able to face up to
it then they can get the good score and graduate successfully. Based on the information above, the researcher would like to study the
Correlation between the Students’ English Achievement in The Try-Out Exam and in The National Exam.
B. Identification of Problem
Based on the background of the study previously, there are many factors which can influence the students learning achievement, internal factors and
external factors. The Internal factors are maturity, intelligence, practice,
motivation, etc. The External factors are learning teaching strategies, environment, opportunity, and Try-Out Exam.
C. Limitation of Problem
There are so many problems could be identified, due limited budget, time, and resources for this research, and also to make problem obviously focused, the
writer decides to make a limitation on the Correlation Between Students’ English Achievement in The Try-Out Exam and in The National Exam of Third Grade
Students of The Educational Year 2006 - 2007 of Khazanah Kebajikan Vocational High School, which is located at Jl. Bukit Cirendeu C6 No. 7, Pamulang,
Tangerang.
D. Statement of the Problem
In line with the limitation of the problem, the researcher problem can be formulated as follows: “Is there any significant positive correlation between the
Students’ English Achievement in the Try-Out Exam and in the National Exam?”
E. The Significance of the Study
The writer expects that her research is useful and can give some information to:
1. Teacher
: as an input in order that before the National Exam, it would be better to conduct Try-Out
first.
2. Students
: to follow Try-Out Exam before taking the National Exam.
3. Principal
: as an input to make “policy” to carry out Try- Out Exam in his school before students follow
the National Exam. 4.
Other Researchers : to do research about the National Exam with different variables.
Organization of Writing
This skripsi is systematically divided into five chapters as below: Chapter one presents Introduction, it contains the Background of the
Study, Identification of the Problem, Limitation of the study, Statement of the Problem, The Significance of the Study, and the Organization of Writing.
Chapter two presents the Theoretical Framework, which contains Theoretical Description of Language Achievement, Try-Out Exam Achievement
and National Exam Achievement, Conceptual Framework, and Hypothesis. Chapter three discusses about the Research Methodology. The first is
Objective of the Study, Place and Time of the Study, Method of the Study, Population and Sample, Instrument, and Data Analysis.
Chapter four is Research Findings which contains the Data Description and Data interpretation.
Chapter five is Conclusion and Suggestions.
CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
