Students’ Strategies In Achieving The Required Toefl Prediction Scores

Most of students could not reach the required score in a single test. Most of them have to take the test at least twice in order to get the required score. Still, there are also some students who could achieve the required TOEFL prediction score in one test, but it is only a small number of them. Therefore, this research is conducted to know what strategies used by those students who reach the required score in a single test. It is aimed to give the other students tips and tricks in answering the test. Hence they could reach the required score as well. The population of this research is PBI students of UIN Ar-RThis research used a qualitative method by interviewing ten students of the Department of English Language Education of UIN Ar-Raniry who achieved the required score in one test. The result showed that there are three kinds of strategies used by the students namely test management strategies, test wiseness strategies and test preparation strategies.