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BUNGA BERLIANSYAH, NIM 1930104015, The thesis entitled: “INVESTIGATING VARIATIONS MADE BY STUDENTS IN TRANSLATING ENGLISH MOU TO INDONESIAN USING TRANSLATION APPLICATION” English Teaching Department, Faculty Of Tarbiyah And Teacher Training, State Islamic University of Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar The problem of this research is there are variation translation used in translating. The purpose of this research is to find the variation translation used by sixth semester students in translating legal MOU documents in theTranslation for Specific Purposes Subject at the English Department at UIN Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar academic year 2023/2024. This research used a qualitative descriptive approach. The instrument of this research is the researcher herself. The data were taken from the final exam results of the Translation for Specific Purposes subject at the English Teaching Deparment at UIN Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar in the 2023/2024 academic year which consists of 26 documents. The data were analyzed based on the theory of translation variation. The theory used to find the variation translation used by students is Huang & Zhang's theory (2020). Data analysis was conducted by coding the data, evaluating the data, explaining the data, and then concluding the data. The findings showed that 5 students used Screen translate application, 16 students used Deepl translator, 2 students used Google translate, and 2 used Yandex translation. The research findings show that students applied 5 variation of translation. There are 151 Adding variation translation, 148 Deleting variation translation, 81 Editing variation translation, 437 narrating variation translation, and 129 Condensing variation translation.