Students’ Difficulties in Coping with TOEFL Test: A Case Study in a Postgraduate English Program of a State University in Mataram

TOEFL test is one type of English testing system to measure takers’ proficiency in grammar and structures as well academic skills such listening reading. Within Indonesian higher education context, postgraduate department students are required have a minimum score 500 order be able pass the thesis exam or graduate. As foreign language students, having high would challenging for them. This study aims identify describe difficulties faced by government university West Nusa Tenggara. employed survey research design. Questionnaires interviews were used data collection. Quantitative qualitative analysis basis analysis. Sixteen (16) their first semester year 2022/2023 involved participants study. The findings revealed that difficulty all three sections: listening, structure In they found several aspects including negative expressions, idiomatic expressions long conversations. structure, problems terms lack understanding parallel subject-verb agreement, error recognition. reading, still struggling with unknown vocabulary, implicit meaning, time management. suggests should develop strategies successful test.