In this paper we present a kinetic study of the reactions of tempering in low-alloy steel (AISI 1050), using the non-isothermal dilatometry. The kinetic parameters of the first and third state of the tempering (here were named as processes I and II) were calculated assuming that the reactions follow the kinetic model of Johnson - Mehl - Avrami - Kolmogorov (JMAK). The calculation of the parameters was not done by setting any model. The formality by which the kinetic parameters (E, n, Ko) are calculated was presented. Five formalisms have been used mainly for the study. Three of them are based on different approximations of the integral of temperature. Another method were based on addition rule .Finally the last method does not use any other approach to the calculation. The result shows that the calculated values are very similar and these values are independent of the method used. Also, do not depend on temperature or transformed fraction .In this study it was concluded that this case happened a process with saturation of sites. During the study the confidence intervals of the parameters were calculated.