Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui pengaruh penerapan strategi pembelajaran reading question and answer (rqa) terhadap hasil belajar biologi siswa kelas xi ipa man tarakan. penilitian ini dilakukan selama bulan agustus- september, 2014 di man tarakan. penelitian ini menggunakan eksperimen semu (quasi eksperiment) dengan populasi seluruh siswa kelas xi man tarakan tahun ajaran 2014/2015, dan sampel yaitu kelas xi-ipa 1 sebagai kelas eksperimen dan kelas xi-ipa 2 sebagai kelas kontrol. teknik pengambilan sampel menggunakan purposive sampling dan teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan dokumentasi, dan observasi, data dianalisis menggunakan software spss 16.0 for windows. berdasarkan hasil analisis data dapat disimpulkan bahwa terdapat pengaruh penerapan strategi pembelajaran reading question and answer (rqa) terhadap hasil belajar biologi siswa kelas xi ipa man tarakan, karena nilai thitung yang diperoleh sebesar 2.271 lebih besar dari ttabel 1,671.

The objectivityes of this study were to find out effect reading question and answer (rqa) strategy to the on learing result in class xi ipa man tarakan. this research was conducted during on august-september 2014 in man tarakan. this is quasi-experimental study (quasi experiment) and the population for this research was the students for all grade of man tarakan in even semester 2014/2015, and the sample was taken from grade xi-ipa 1 as the experiment class and grade xi-ipa 2 as the control class. the sampling technique using purposive sampling and data collection techniques using documentation, and observation. the data were analyzed using spss 16.0 for windows software. according to the results of data analysis it can be concluded that there was effect of reading question and answer (rqa) strategy to the on learing result in class xi ipa man tarakan, because the tvalue is 2.271 bigger than the ttable 1,671.