STUDENTS’ ERROR ANALYSIS IN SOLVING PROBABILITY STORY QUESTIONS BASED ON REVISED NEWMAN THEOREM

Generally, students still need help working on story-shaped questions. This error is natural, but if it continues, will harm the mastery of next material. The ability to solve story questions closely related numeracy skills, therefore knowing location difficulties using revised Newman theorem and causal factors achieve higher learning outcomes. research was a quantitative descriptive approach, with subjects junior high school as many 152 students. instruments used were diagnostic tests questionnaires. Each had an estimated reliability 0.701 0.705 good qualifications. results show that students' most frequent types errors in solving empirical theoretical probabilities 43% transformation errors, 36% comprehension 15% process skill encoding by 6%. specific student are not thorough students, being hurry, having difficulty understanding questions, did master material, forgetting formula, hesitating determining re-check answers, unable write final project answers/conclusions. Interest motivation well society general influence mistakes made