The aim of this research was to find out the effectiveness of teaching reading by using
Note Taking for junior high school especially at the eighth grade students of SMP
Negeri 1 Cilongok in academic year 2015/2016. This research used quasi experimental
research. The subject of this research were VIII H as experimental class which consisted
34 students and VIII F as control class which consisted of 34 students. The instrument
of collecting data was test. The test was done before and after treatment; it was pre-test
and post-test. The type of the test was multiple choices which consisted 25 items both
pre-test and post-test. T-test formula was used to analyze the data. Based on the
computation, t-test result was 4.362 and t-table for the degree of freedom 66 at the level
of significant 0.05 was 1.668. It showed that t-test result was higher than t-table (4.362
> 1.668). In conclusion, the hypothesis which stated that note taking is effective for
teaching reading was accepted.