Writing is one of the abilities that is challenging to dominate in English. Consequently, this study was directed to break down various sorts of error and the number of missteps that were made by pupils recorded as a writing recount text based on surface strategy taxonomy. This study utilized qualitative research method. The subjects in this review are 10th grade pupils at SMK AL Kaaffah Kepanjen Malang in the 2022/2023 learning year. The questionnaires and student writing were used as research instruments in this study. In this exploration, pupils were approached to compose a recount text of individual encounters that the pupils had encountered. The consequences of the pupils recount text composing will be analyzed, identified and classified in view of Dulay's (1982) Taxonomy of Surface Strategies. From the aftereffects of this investigation, specialists found 112 syntactic mistakes made by pupils. These errors are isolated into four sections, to be specific, the mistakes most frequently made by pupils are misformation mistakes of 64 items (57.1%), the subsequent mistakes are omission of 29 items (25.9%), addition mistakes of 13 items (11.6%) and misordering mistakes 6 items (5.4%). In light of the consequences of this exploration, the discoveries uncover that's how pupils might interpret sentence structure is still low and there is still a ton of need for development in word writing in describe message. Where an essential component of English language instruction is grammar. It is hoped that future researchers will place a greater emphasis on the vocabulary and grammar abilities of students.  Keywords : Grammatical Errors, Qualitative Research, Writing Text