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Gemila Juwana, (2024) : Factors Affecting Students' Reading Comprehension on Descriptive Texts at Second Grade of MTsN 4 Sijunjung Based on the researcher's initial research, it was found that some second grade students at MTsN 4 Sijunjung had been taught about descriptive text but still had difficulty in understanding descriptive text. The researcher formulated the problem in a research question, namely what factors affecting students' reading comprehension on descriptive text? Therefore, the purpose of this study is to find out what factors affecting students' reading comprehension on descriptive text. This research is a descriptive research. The subject of this research is second grade students of MTsN 4 Sijunjung, while the object of this research is students' comprehension in reading descriptive text. The researcher used the Total Sampling technique to take the sample; there were 76 students as samples. To collect data, the researcher used a questionnaire. The questionnaire was used to find out what factors affecting students' reading comprehension on descriptive text. Based on the data analysis, the researcher found that there are factors affecting students' reading comprehension on descriptive text. These factors can be percentage on each indicator, namely lack of fluency in the percentage of 58%, inadequate use of reading strategies in the percentage of 54%, the level of difficulty of the text in the percentage of 68.42%, problems in processing information in the percentage of 67.54%, limited vocabulary knowledge in the percentage of 70.06%, weak verbal reasoning in the percentage of 61.84%, lack of familiarity with the subject in the percentage of 60.52%, problems in recalling information after reading in the percentage of 53.07%.