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Leni Fatimah (2318023) The Effect of Using Skimming Technique In Students Reading Comprehension To Find Out Main Idea at The Ninth Grade Of MTs Ti Paninggahan. A Thesis, English Education Department, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Education, State Islamic University (UIN) of Bukittinggi, 2023. This research was done due to several problems that found by the researcher: the students had low score in reading exercise especially in finding main idea, most of students did not know how to find out main idea of the text and did not know where the position of main idea, the technique of the teacher is not effective to solve the students’ problems in comprehending text to find out main idea. Skimming technique related to this problem because Skimming is a technique to look the gist of what the author is saying without a lot of detail. This research aims to find out the effect of using skimming technique in students reading comprehension on narrative text. This research was conducted to the ninth grade of Mts Ti Paninggahan. In this study, the researcher used quantitative method with pre-experimental design by comparing the students’ pre-test and post-test scores. To determine the sample, the researcher used purposive sampling and choosed one class as experimental class. The subject of this study ninth grade that consist of 18 students. In collecting the data, the researcher used reading test as an instrument of this research. To analyze the data, the researcher used content and contruct validity to test the validity of the instrument test then used alpha cronbarch to test reability of intrument test. To test the hypothesis, the researcher used t-test (α) = 0.05. Based on the calculation pre-test and post-test. The result shown that there were significant difference on the students reading comprehension to find out main idea after taught used skimming technique. The students mean score of the post-test was 78,33, it is bigger than mean score of pre-test was 46,11. The researcher used t-test formula by comparing score of pre-test and post-test through SPSS. Based on the output statistic, the value of Sig (2-tailed) is 0,00 0,05. It means that Ha is accepted. It means that the students who are taught using skimming technique is better than the students who are taught before using skimming technique. In short, skimming technique has a significant effect on students’ reading comprehension to find out main idea on narrative text at Mts Ti Paninggahan