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ABSTRACT TIA GUSTIANI, 2313.031. Students’ Metacognitive Strategy in Reading Comprehension (A Survey Research) at The First Grade in MAN 2 Bukittinggi. A Thesis, State Islamic Institute ( IAIN) Bukittinggi, 2017. This research was done based on the problems that happen to most of the tenth grade students of MAN 2 Bukittinggi. Based on the preliminary research, it was found that only 30% of 29 students in the class were good in reading. In addition, the teacher did not realized if he had been applied metacognitive strategy and he also did not give the clearly direction to his students. Consequently, the students could not follow reading sequence and felt bored, for instance: in planning, the students did not already know about the activities before reading. In monitoring, some students still lack of the strategy in comprehending the text. In problem solving, the students are not able to correct and revise their mistakes including did not know generic structure of the text and did not know the strategies to comprehend reading comprehension itself. In evaluating, they tend to ignore make a summarizes. Because of the problem above, the researcher assumption, it would impact on low marks. Morever, this research was conducted to analyze and to find out the percentage of the dominat part of metacognitive strategy that is used by the students in reading comprehension. This research used descriptive quantitative method which refers to survey research. The researcher used cluster random sampling technique and used questionnaires as the instrument for collecting the data. The researcher calculated and analyze the data used Likert scales. From the data result, it was found that the percentages of planning in reading comprehension is 75.75%, the percentages of the monitoring is 73.11%, the score of problem solving is 79%, and the percentages of evaluating is 75.73%. Thus, the highest percentage of metacognitive strategy is problem solving and the lowest percentage is monitoring. Furthermore, the dominant metacognitive strategy used by the students in reading comprehension is problem solving.