The purpose of this research is to identify the difficulties of reading comprehension faced by students and the factors causing the students' difficulties in reading comprehension at higher education. This study used mixed method with document analysis by students’ test and interview as data collection technique. Ten students of the first-grade students of English Study Program, Faculty of Teachers Training and Education of Universitas Kuningan in the academic year of 2023/2024 were elected to be research objects using purposive sampling technique. The researcher uses the theory of reading comprehension from Nuttal (2018) as cited in F. Fahmi, (2023). The result shows that there are 85% students having difficulties in understanding the meaning of words. Second, there are 75% students having difficulties in finding specific information. Third, there are 65% students having difficulties in making inferences. Fourth, there are 65% students having difficult in determining the main idea. The difficulties in reading comprehension are caused by three factors. The researcher uses the theory from Rahim (2006) in Fauziah & Dania, (2021). They are lack of interest in reading English (long English text), lazy to learn English material and students’ environment. The researcher discovered that the strategies they use to overcome their difficulties is to highlighting, translating, and reading repeatedly O’Malley et al., (1990) in (Ratnasari et al., 2023).
Keywords: Reading comprehension test, students’ difficulties, reading strategies.