experience already. In fact, The Try-Out Exam is not conducted nationally. To do it, the schools must have enough budget and time to prepare it.
In line with the above description, the Try-Out Exam is Pre-Summative test because the test is given to students before they follow the National Exam.
Perhaps students who have done the try-out test are ready to face National Exam. Factually, Khazanah Kebajikan Vocational High School formally conducts
the Try-Out test once, but the English teacher arrange the test which is accordance with Try-Out test more than three times. The teacher and students always discuss
the result and the content of the test to find out and to strengthen their weakness in English especially in each part of part of speech. Due to having good experiences
it makes students there are accustomed to cope with this kind of test. Finally, whenever they face the National Exam they are more confident than before. It can
be seen through their increment of the scores of their informally Try-Out tests.
B. Conceptual Framework
Theoretically, National Exam Achievement is correlated to the Try-Out Exam because Try-Out is a pre-summative test which carried a couple months
before the summative test, National Exam. The Try-Out Exam is a kind of practice to the National Exam. Try-Out Exam is able to trigger off students’
bravery and motivation to extend to which individual works or strives to learn the language because of desire to do so and the satisfaction experienced in the
activity. By doing the Try-Out test, students not only study the material of the test but also know how to deal with National Exam, it guides students to be
accustomed to deal with National Exam, besides, the result of the Try-Out Exam can encourage the students to study hard and to prepare themselves better than
before, finally, they will study more intensively and tend to have good scores in the National Exam.
C. Hypotheses
Based on the conceptual framework the hypothesis of this research is “There is positive correlation between Students’ English Achievement in the Try-
Out Exam and in the National Exam”. The statistical hypotheses can be formulated as follow:
H
o
: r
xy
= 0 H
a
: r
xy
≠ 0
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Objective of the Study
The objective of this study is to study the Correlation between The Students’ English Achievement in the Try-Out Exam and in the National Exam.
B. Place and Time of the Study
The research of this study was conducted at Khazanah Kebajikan Vocational High School which is located at Bukit Cirendeu Blok C6 no. 7,
Pamulang, Tangerang. This research started on June 10
th
, 2007 and finished on June 30
th
, 2007.
C. Method of the Study
The method of this study is a survey which belongs to ex post facto research because the research is conducted after variation in the variable of
interest has already been determined in the natural course of events;
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in this case, the events are the Try-Out Examination and the National Examination.
The Purposive sampling is used to obtain the data; the writer considers that The Third Grade students of Khazanah Kebajikan Vocational School as
representing sample from all population around group 6 in Tangerang District.
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Donald Ary, Lucy Jacobs, Asghar Razavieh, Introduction to Research in Education, USA: Wadsworth Thomson Learning, 6
th
ed, 2002, p. 335
