Key words : Reading Comprehension, Analytical Exposition text, SMAN 3 Kerinci Reading is one of the most important part in learning English. By reading the students can increase knowledge about experience, technology and easy way to get much information that is useful for them. To get many information, the students should to have good ability in reading comprehension. But, not all students have a good ability in reading comprehension. There are still some students that have problem in reading, make the students difficult to comprehend the material in teaching learning process, especially in teaching learning some text in reading skill. The aim this research is to know how is the students ability and to analyze the students’ problem in reading comprehension of analytical exposition text at the eleventh grade of SMAN 3 Kerinci Academic Year 2021/2022. The researcher used the mixed method reaseach, there are quantitative research to analyze the students ability in reading comprehension of analytical exposition text, and used the qualitative research to analyze the students’ difficulties in reading comprehension of analytical exposition text. The researcher used the total sampling, that focus on 72 students. The instrument of this research is reading comprehension test and interview. And the total number of the test item is 20 items in multiple choice. The categorization was based on the empirical standard deviation and the impirical mean value to descriptive analysis and Browns’ theory to determine the level category of srudents’ reading comprehension. After that, the researcher will ask the students’ difficulties through interview. The finding of the research prove that students’ reading comprehension ability in analytical exposition text is moderate ability. And the students’ problem in reading comprehension were the the students do not interest to read English text, the teacher not teach clearly about the text, and the students have lack of vocabulary to comprehend the English text. The researcher also suggested the students to more interested to read and learn English text, and increase the vocabulary, and for the other researcher that want be better to analyze with the other aspects of this research.
