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ABSTRACT Jalmi Harti, 2314.098. Thesis Title: “An Analysis of Students’ Ability in Answering Higher Order Thinking Skills Test on English Subject of the Third Grade Students of SMAN 1 Bukittinggi”, A Thesis, State Islamic Institute (IAIN) Bukittinggi, 2019. Based on background of the problem found, the researcher have analyzed the test related to Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) and students’ ability in answering that test with assessment indicators: analysing, evaluating, and creating that has been done by English teacher in the third grade of SMAN 1 Bukittinggi. There were several problems found by the researcher, namely students were lack of transfer information of their background knowledge and the students were still lack of expressing their idea in answering Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) questions. This research used descriptive quantitative research. The data analyzed by using document analysis method proposed by Sugiyono. The researcher used the first semester final test, multiple choice analyze Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) question and students test result to collect the data. The population of this research was 139 third grade students of SMAN 1 Bukittinggi. This research used cluster random sampling technique. The researcher took 20% respondents there were 28 students as informants. The researcher analysed students’ test result of seven samples in each class. . Based on the data obtained by researcher in the field, it can be concluded that teachers used Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) questions in the first semester final test and students have answered Higher Order Thinking (HOTS) questions in first semester final test. The total of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) question was 15% and students’ test result of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) was 58.2%. From these data, it can be concluded that ability of students to answer Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) questions was low. Key words: Higher Order Thinking Skill, Test Result.