The current study was intended to identify the types of grammatical errors by the eleventh-grade students at 8 Senior High School Jambi city in writing recount text. The researcher used the descriptive qualitative research method. The research participants were the students of 8 Senior High School Jambi city, this school has science and social major. The data source here was the students’ writing. In collecting the data, researcher used pre-observation and documentation of students writing. There were four steps to analyze the data which contain students’ errors. It consists of collecting the data, identifying the errors, classifying and explaining. There were twenty recount texts analyzed. The result of this study showed that the most frequent errors found in students’ works were misselection (80 items), omission (10 items), addition (2 items), and misordering (5 items). After do the analysis, it was found that the highest grammatical error made by the students was misselection.