ANALYZING HOTS OF THE THIRD SEMESTER ENGLISH STUDENTS AT TIMOR UNIVERSITY ON WRITING THESIS STATEMENTS OF PARAGRAPHS

The purpose of this is study is to analyze HOTS of the third semester English Students at Timor University on writing thesis statements of paragraphs. The population of the research is 63 and the sample was taken by cluster technique sampling. The sample is 35 students of the third semester English students at Timor University. The research instrument used were the test which consists of three types: Analyzing, Evaluating, and Creating. The data were analyzed by calculating the students’ score and performed the item analysis to identify the HOTS levels of the students’ score. Based on the analysis, the most dominant score is 51-75, and there are 26 students in that level with 74%. The data also showed that there were only a few students, 2 students with the percentage 6% who could achieve the scores of 100-76 and 7 students with the percentage 20% who could achieve the scores of 26-50. The findings of this study indicate that the student’s ability of third semester in Timor University is at good level.