Success of Indicator
Students’ level of mastery in reading comprehension is determined based on criteria proposed by Masidjo (1995:153) that will use PAP (Criterion Referenced Evaluation) type 1. Furthermore, Masidjo states that the students would be considered successful if the students’ score could attain at least 6.5 of the maximum score (10). It means the ideal passing score is at least 65%. This study will be stopped when 90% of the students, subject of this study, get 65 as the minimal score for their reading comprehension according to the SKBM (the passing criterion) of English in SMP Negeri 2 Tegallalang. The criteria could be seen in the following table.