Toefl as A Requirement of Graduation: What Challenges

This thesis discuss about the challenges of TOEFL as a graduation requirement for non-English department students. It is aimed to find out the effectiveness of TOEFL test, the correlation between prior course and the TOEFL score of students, and also the challenges in taking TOEFL as one of graduation requirements for non-English department students. Hence, the researcher conducted this research in Mathematics Department and Management of Islamic Education Department on the Education and Teacher Training Faculty of State Islamic University of Ar-Raniry, Banda Aceh. The participants of this research were 80 participants. To collect the data, the writer used questionnaire and then analysed it by using SPSS (Statistical Package and Service Solutions). Therefore, the writer found the result that TOEFL is not effective as a graduation requirement, there is a correlation between prior course and TOEFL score of students, and there are challenges in taking the TOEFL. One of the most challenging question is about idiom in listening comprehension section.