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The purpose of this research was to describe the students’ difficulties in writing descriptive text and to find out the solution of students’ difficulties in writing descriptive text of tenth graders in SMA Frater Don Bosco Tarakan in academic year 2020/2021. This research is descriptive qualitative method. Data were collected from written test and interview. The research finding showed that the students have difficulties in linguistic aspect and non linguistic aspect. In linguistic aspect included grammar, vocabulary and mechanic, while in non linguistic aspect included content and organization. The percentage of this research showed that the students have difficulties in all points of scoring, the highest percentage is 81% of students have difficulty in vocabulary, the second percentage is 72% of students have difficulty in mechanic, the third percentage is 63% of students have difficulty in grammar, the forth percentage is 40% students have difficulty in content, and the last percentage is 31% students have difficulty in organization. Based on the data finding in this research, some suggestions are given to English teacher that the teacher should emphasize to solve the students’ difficulty and also the teacher should learn better to apply the techniques of teaching writing skill. Some suggestions are given the students to learn more enterprising about English, especially in writing descriptive text, pay attention to the teacher when learning, and if anyone does not understand the material then ask the teacher, respect teachers as you respect your parents.