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SRI ARDILA, NIM: 1001065216. The Relationship between Students’ Vocabulary Mastery and Reading Comprehension on Analytical Exposition Text at Eleventh Grade of SMA N 7 Bekasi in the 2014-2015 Academic Year. A paper. Jakarta: The Study Programme of English Education The Schools of Teacher Training and Education The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka, 2015. The objective of this research is to discover the relationship between students’ vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension on analytical exposition text at eleventh grade of SMA N 7 Bekasi in the 2014-2015 academic years. The writer took 40 students as the sample. The research consisted of two variables. The first variable was the vocabulary mastery test, and the second variable was reading comprehension on analytical exposition text test. The writer used the Pearson’s Product Moment analysis in order to get the relationship between both variables. The result of the research showed that the average score of students’ vocabulary mastery is 65.37 and the average score of students’ reading comprehension on analytical exposition text is 80.5. Pearson Product moment analysis showed that robserved is higher than rtable (0.97 > 0.34), and got significant correlation that t observed is higher than ttable (24.57 > 1.68). It meant null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and alternative hypothesis (Hi) is accepted. In other words, there is a significant relationship between students’ vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension on analytical exposition text at eleventh grade of SMA N 7 Bekasi in 2014-2015 academic year.