This study aims to find out the ability of the second year students of SMPN 13 Pekanbaru in writing recount text. The population of the study were all second year students of 2019/2020 as big as 300 persons. Due to the big size of the homogeneus population, the simple random sampling is used to take the sample as many as 30 students (10%). Writing test was administered to collect the needed dat…