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The aim of this paper is to analyze the national examination scores of mathematics data for senior high school level in Indonesia from 2015 until 2018. Data analysis techniques used in this paper are explorative method with descriptive statistics and inferential statistics to find an overview of students mathematical abilities in Indonesia. The data were obtained from Pusat Penilaian Pendidikan (Puspendik) Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia. The result shows that the scores of mathematics national examination for language, sains, and social department decreases every year. The results of the two average tests with t test, shows that the decrease in each year is significant, except for 2015 to 2016 on language department. The result also shows that the biggest average for language, sains, and social respectively are 41.60, 54. 41, and 51.76, all from 2015. The conclusion is that the mathematics ability of high school students in Indonesia is still low. The application of the high order thinking skills (HOTS) problem is also one of the factors that affected the decrease in 2018.