Based on figure 1, it can be seen that there were 19 students who got under average scores and 11 students got a good scores over average score 70 Standar Minimum of
Criteria.
b. Result of Ability in Writing Descriptive text Test
The test was conducted in order to see students’ ability in writing descriptive text.
The test was administered in SMPN 1 Karya Penggawa Pesisir Barat on October 10
th
, 2016. The minimum score was 65 and the maximum score was 75. There were 2
students who got the score 65. Five students got the score 75. Four students got the score lower than 70 and 19 students got the score higher than 70. The mean of writing
descriptive text test is 71. It can be seen appendix 17.
Figure 2 Result of the Writing Descriptive text Test
descriptivetext Stem-and-Leaf Plot Frequency Stem Leaf
2.00 Extremes =65.0 4.00 68 . 0000
.00 69 . 9.00 70 . 000000000
.00 71 . 8.00 72 . 00000000
.00 73 . 2.00 74 . 00
5.00 75 . 00000 Stem width: 1
Each leaf: 1 cases
Based on figure 2, it can be seen that there were 6 students who got score under average scores and 24 students got a good scores over average score 70 Standar
Minimum of Criteria.
B. Result of Data Analysis
1. Result of Normality Test
The normality test is used to measure whether the data in the simple present tense mastery class and writing descriptive text class were normally distributed or not. In
this research, statistical computation by using SPSS Statistical Package for the Social Sciences was used for normality of test. The test of normality employed was
Shapiro Wilk. H
o
is accepted if Sig p
value
α.= 0.05. In this case, the criteria of normality test as follows:
The hypotheses formula are : H
o
= The data have normal distribution. H
a
= The data do not have normal distribution.
While the criteria acceptance or rejection of normality test are: H
o
was accepted if Sig. α = 0. 05
H
a
was accepted if Sig. α = 0. 05
