This thesis concerns on teaching Simple Past Tense at Islamic Senior High School by using Jeopardy Game. The main objective of this study is to find out whether there is or not a significant difference between students whowere taught Simple Past Tense by using Jeopardy Game and who were not taught by using Jeopardy Game. The hypothesis of this research that there is a significant difference students’ achievement score of Simple Past Tensebetween they were taught using Jeopardy game Method and they were not taught by using Jeopardy Game Methodat the tenth grade students of MAN Pemalang in the academic year of 2013/ 2014.
This research is quantitative research.The research design used is experimental design. The instrumentused to collect the data in this research is test.
The subject of this study is the tenth grade students of MAN Pemalang in the academic year of 2013/ 2014. The number of sample is 42. In taking the sample, the writer usesrandom sampling technique. Class X.10.1is chosen as experimental class who were taught Simple Past Tense by using Jeopardy Game Method and class X.9 as control class who were not taught Simple Past Tenseby using Jeopardy Game Method.
In accordance with data analysis, the result shows the average score of the experimental class is60,48 for the pre test and 83,81 for the post test. Meanwhile the average scores for the control class is59,76 for the pre test and 72,62 for the post test. In the result of post test of experiment class is 83,81 which higher than the control class 72,62.It means that teaching Simple Past Tense using Jeopardy Game Method is better than teaching Simple Past Tense without Jeopardy Game Method. The result of the calculation using the t-test showed that t value = 3,203 and t table for α= 5% was 1.680. It means that t valueis higher than t table (3,203> 1.680). It can be concluded that there is a significant difference in the students’achievement score of the tenthgrade students of MAN Pemalang in the academic year of 2013/ 2014 between students whowere taught Simple Past Tenseby usingJeopardy Game Method and those who were not taught byusing Jeopardy Game Method. The hypothesis is accepted