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Overcome: Perception of Indonesian Vocational Students  \n Nurul Amalia Zahruni  \n Fahmi  \n Bambang Widi Pratolo  \n Universitas Ahmad Dahlan, Indonesia  \nAbstract  \nThe purpose of this research was to discover problems that Indonesian Vocational Students are having with the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) to improve TOEIC instruction. The participants were 18 students in school attending the TOEIC preparation course in the TOEIC course in October 2018. There were two steps in taking the data: (1) questionnaires on the listening and reading problems in the TOEIC test, and (2) interview on how they cope with the problems. The result shows that: 1) The majority of subjects had no experience in TOEIC and most of them did not have any preparation for the test; 2) Listening problems were at a high level in questionnaires 100% for the lack in vocabulary; 3) Reading problems were at a high level in questionnaires 100% for unknowing the meaning based on the context of the text; 4) The interview results showed that the students solve the problem in TOEIC test with learning by themselves, discuss with a partner and learning on the internet. The researchers recommend that the TOEIC course should include vocabulary building and be conducted frequently.  \nKeywords  \nTOEIC  \nvocational students listening  \nreading  \nEthical Lingua  \nVol. 7, No. 1, 2020  \nISSN 2355-3448 (Print)  \nISSN 2540-9190 (Online)  \nCorresponding Email  \nBambang Widi Pratolo[bambang.pratolo@pbi.uad.ac](bambang.pratolo@pbi.uad.ac). id  \nArticle’s History  \nSubmitted 27 Dec 2019 Revised 8 April 2020  \nAccepted 9 April 2020  \nDOI  \n10.30605/25409190.167  \nCopyright © 2020  \nThe Author(s)  \nThis article is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License  \nChallenges of Taking TOEIC Test and How to Overcome: Perception of Indonesian Vocational Students  \nThe current English Language Test is one of the tendency topics among academics and workers in the world. The test is used to be one of the benchmarking considerations for both students and workers. Implementing an English language test at school or any institution isan effective strategy to improve the quality of English mastery. Most of the Indonesian schools use this test includes in Indonesian Vocational School. Vocational School students have fluctuating values in the TOEIC test. The TOEIC test is a benchmark for English language skills at their school. The TOEIC test does not only talk about work achievement but also about important abilities in the language. The researchers attempt to find the challenges on the TOEIC test and the solutions from the TOEIC test based on the perspective of the participants who belong to the Vocational High School students. The researchers took the participants randomly from lower achievers, middle achievers, and higher achievers. There were two majors from the participants: Accounting Major and Administration Office Major. The TOEIC itself can improve their English and motivate them to learn English. TOEIC test skill includes Listening Skill and Reading Skills. There are some steps in listening skills and reading skills that already had the rules.  \nTOEIC test has a reading and listening test. There are 100 questions for the reading test and the same with the listening test. In the reading test, the duration takes 75 minutes , includingthe four sub-tests. Meanwhile, the listening test takes time 45 minutes, including the three sub-tests. The listening test is the first test that carries out in the TOEIC, while the reading test is second. There are four sub-tests in the listening test. The first sub-test is listening comprehension with some pictures. This sub-test presents a picture in all its question items. The test takers are asked to listen to the statements and expected to choose the correct description based on the picture.  \nThe second sub-test is listening to some questions from the audio and answer the multiple questions. 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