An Analysis of Learning Strategies Among Students with 500 TOEFL Score or Above

TOEFL is one of the graduation standard requirements for students to graduate from the university especially at UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh. The purpose of this research is to identify and explore students' learning strategies for those who have passed the TOEFL with score 500 or above. This also covers topics on how they prepare before and during the TOEFL test. The population of this research was English department students from batch 2015 and 2016. Ten students were taken as the participants of this research who were first selected with purposive sampling technique to make the research more on point. The data of this study was collected by using semi-structure interview technique then later described and discussed descriptively. The findings show that students who succeed the TOEFL score above 500 had somewhat same habit in learning each section of TOEFL. Before the TOEFL test, there were five strategies found in listening section, three in structure and four in reading. Meanwhile, the strategies used during the test, there were six strategies identified in listening section, three in structure, and four in reading section.