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  • Based on School Based Curriculum (KTSP), reading is one of the English language skills that must be taught and learned in Senior High School or Vocational High School. Senior High School 1 Tanah Putih in Rohil regency is a school which uses KTSP as the curriculum in the teaching and learning process. After doing observation in Senior high school 1 Tanah Putih , the writer found that the students still had difficulties in comprehending the reading text. The students were difficult to find the meaning of the words or sentences in the text. In this case, the teacher was expected to find a good method in order to give a good contribution to increase students’ reading comprehension by applying Task-Based Learning method. This research was conducted in senior high school 1 Tanah Putih, the subject of this research was the first grade students of Senior high school 1 Tanah Putih, and the object of this research was the effect of Task-Based Learning method toward reading comprehension on narrative text. The research design was a Quasi-Experimental research. Total number of population of the first grade students at Senior High School 1 Tanah Putih was 130, because the number of population was too large, the writer used cluster sampling to take two classes as a sample. Class X.4 consisted of 25 students as a control class and X.5 consisted of 25 students as experimental class. Total number of sample for both of classes was 50 students. The data were got by pre and post test and the data were analyzed by using SPSS 16.0 version program with Independent Sample T-test. After analyzing the data by using SPSS 16.0 version program, it was obtained that tobserved (to) was higher than ttable (tt) with 5% and 1% significance level. It means, null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected, and alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. In conclusion, there was significant effect of using Task-Based Learning method towards reading comprehension on narrative text of the first grade students at SMAN 1 Tanah Putih, Rohil Regency.