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The purpose of this study is to examine how much college students used listening strategies in their TOEIC listening test. Data was collected from 84 Korean college students who took TOEIC test in the second term of 2010, and a questionnaire was used as the tool for this study. The major findings of this study include: First, college English learners used listening strategies, an average of 3.02, which was almost the same average of 3.0. Second, they used listening strategies above the average related to metacognitive strategy, memory strategy, and compensational strategy, but the use of affective and cogntive strategies was below the average. These results mean that they used memory strategy to memorize what they heard, used compensational strategy to compensate for what they did not hear, and used metacognitive strategy to plan and control their problem-solving process. But they did not use the other listening strategy commonly. This study illustrates the importance of using strategies in TOEIC listening test. It will be also helpful for English teachers in college to understand what kind of strategies were used in TOEIC listening test and the importance of teaching listening strategies. If teachers introduce unfamiliar listening strategies which were not found to be commonly used by the students from this study, the strategy instruction could be more effective for the development of the college students’ listening abilities.