In summary writing, a reader was asked to prepare a summary from a reading passage in his own words. Through this test format, the researcher was able to assess students’ ability in identifying the main ideas in the passage and the way reader put these ideas together in his own words to create a coherent summary of the passage. Sometimes, there were situations whereby the students copied the text and transferred it to the summary section. In such cases, the student would lose marks on summary writing as he had not developed a summary in his own words in a synthesized manner. The advantage of summary writing in assessing reading comprehension was that it assessed reading comprehension as a whole and it did not break reading into parts. Another advantage of summary writing in assessing reading was that it was a supply-type test format and there was minimal chance for cheating and guessing the correct answer without reading the passage. In this test method, the reader should read the text thoroughly, comprehend the gist of the passage and identify the important parts that carried the core meaning to enable the students to develop an effective summary. Therefore if the summary could relate to a real-world task, the adequacy of the response would be easier to establish (Alderson, 2000).