THE ACHIEVEMENT OF MEMORIZING AL-QURAN AMONG STUDENTS AT SEKOLAH MENENGAH KEBANGSAAN AGAMA (SMKA) IN IMPLEMENTING THE TAHFIZ MODEL ULUL ALBAB (TMUA)

The high number of applications to enter educational institutions that provide a syllabus for memorizing Al-Quranhas received the attention of the Ministry of Education to implement Tahfiz Model Ulul Albab (TMUA) curriculum. After ten years of the program implementation since 2014, there were still many problems and issues arose such as the level of students achievement in memorizing Al-Quran is still not yet satisfactory. Past research findings show that not all TMUA students able to complete the Al-Quran memorization of 30 juzuk within five years of study as outlined by the Ministry of Education. Hence, this study aims to see the achievement of Al-Quran memorization among SekolahMenengahKebangsaan Agama (SMKA) students in the period of five months. The percentage of students achievement records were taken starting from school opening in March until August 2023 to examine the level of students achievement in completing their Al-Quran memorization based on prescribed syllabus. The findings show that the number of SMKA schools that able to achieve more than 50% of students who wereable to reach the Al-Quran memorization target are more, yet the number of students who did not succeed is still high and not yet satisfactory.