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Students- error analysis is very important for helping English as a Foreign Learners- (EFL) teachers to develop their teaching materials, assessments and methods. The study aims to find out the errors done by students in using simple present tense, and to know the cause of errors made by students at the eleventh grade of Madrasah Aliyah Negeri (MAN) 4 Bandar Lampung in 2018/2019 academic year. This study employed a descriptive-qualitative method. The data were taken from students- writing task, namely student-s sentences containing errors in using simple present, analyzed by Linguistic Category Taxonomy (LCT). The study discovers that there are five types of errors based on LCT. They are errors of noun phrase verb phrase, verb-and-verb construction, word order and transformation. Moreover, the cause of error most widely performed are subsequently performance error, overgeneralization, markers of transitional competence, teacher-induced error, strategy of communication and assimilation, and interference.