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The objective of this descriptive qualitative study were to discover the types of speech pauses used by male and female students in English oral examination. The subject of the study was class XI of MAS Pesantren Arraudhatul Hasanah Medan which had been choosen randomly. The data were obtained from the recorded conversation of English oral examination and then were transcribed. The data were the male and female students utterances in English oral examination. The data were identified, analyzed and categorized based on theory of Rose (1998), Clack & Tree (2002) in relation to the theory of Tottie (2001) about the concept of gender and speech pauses. The finding of the study showed that there were 3 types of speech pause that could be found in both data of the utterances of male and female students, namely 1) silent pause, 2) unlexicalized filled pause, and 3) lexicalized filled pause. Silent pause was the most frequently type used by male and female students.