Students’ Obstacles in Answering Reading Test

This research aimed to find out the students’ obstacles in reading test. The sample is selected by using random sampling method. The samples of this study were eleventh grade students of SMA 1 Indrapuri since the score of their reading test is considered low. This research employed quantitative method which used close-ended questionnaire in order to obtain the data. The sample of this study was 84 students from four classes. The results showed that most of the students faced the difficulty in answering the questions of reading test due to several reasons: 1) the students are lack in vocabulary, 2) the lack of language knowledge 3) their background knowledge is not sufficient enough to help them connect ideas in the reading text, and 4) the students experienced some kind of conditions during the reading process, such as the time limit, the pressure, and the lack of motivation.