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The research aimed to find out the difficulties of students’ at SMPN 1 Mendo Barat in writing descriptive texts. The method used in this research is descriptive quantitative. The researchers used a written test as an instrument, a written test in the form of an essay test to make a descriptive text about describing my family and animal. The population of this research was the seventh grade at SMPN 1 Mendo Barat in 2023/2024 school year. The sample is class VII A and B which consists of 35 students selected using purposive sampling. This finding shows that students' difficulties in writing descriptive texts are based on 5 assessment components in writing descriptive texts. First, the content component with an average score of 3.17 or including good criteria, second, the organizational component with an average of 2.66 or including sufficient criteria, the third grammatical component with an average of 2.11 or including poor criteria, fourth , the vocabulary component with an average of 2.06 or poor criteria, and lastly, the mechanical component with an average of 2.17 or including bad criteria. From the results of the data, only 2 components are classified as good and there are 3 components that are under the good category. This proves that at the level of students' difficulty in writing descriptive texts academically, they are still classified as poor. The students’ most difficulties it was found the vocabulary category. This is based on the calculation of student assessment from 35 samples obtained a total score of 72, then to calculate the average overall score, the total score (72) is divided by the number of samples ( 35 students) obtained an average score of 2.06.