Scientific literacy is one of important student's soft skills to have in face current competition. This research will discuss how the scientific literacy test results of SMK students of the Construction and Property Engineering expertise program in Jakarta and Bogor. This study uses descriptive narrative methods with content analyze approach that describe the result of instrument of scientific literacy in Technical Mechanics. The respondent students are 71 as representative from Jakarta and 30 from Bogor Regency. The results obtained by vocational school students in Jakarta only about 54,96% and the value of scientific literacy achievement in Bogor is only 58,85%. The results also show that there is still a very low scientific literacy ability of students in vocational high schools of Construction and Property Engineering expertise programs both in Jakarta and Bogor. Scientific literacy did not reach the maximum value due to content materials and the realm of scientific literacy in the instrument that less relevant to the characteristics of vocational students, considered to be one of the factors that caused the literacy of vocational school students is described as relatively low. Therefore, it is necessary to create a new literacy concept and instrument that focuses on vocational schools. © 2023 American Institute of Physics Inc.. All rights reserved.
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