This research focused on the reading comprehension difficulties that the 8th grade students experienced. The goals of this research were to determine the aspects and factors of reading comprehension as discovered by the 8th grade students. The descriptive quantitative approach was employed to collect data for this study, and the instruments were a test and a questionnaire. The test consisted of twenty questions divided into five categories: main idea, specific information, making inference, locating reference, and vocabulary. The data were analysed using the index difficulty. The exam results revealed that the most difficult aspects that the 8th grade students encountered were locating references (63%) and making inference questions (63%). Furthermore, based on the students' questionnaire replies, they typically received inadequate word recognition such as understanding vocabulary 78% and the difficulty understanding the intent of the text 76%, second, a lack of background knowledge such as students’ difficulty in determining the main idea (65%), grammatical structure (75%), inferences of the text (53%) and students’ understanding the context of the text (70%), next, a lack or bad use strategy (73%), and the home environment that lack of motivation from family to read English text (65%). In addition, the students did not have difficulty with the psychological element and school environment factors. As a result, the most common cause of the students' issues was inadequate word recognition or comprehension of vocabulary. The result implied that most of the students found difficult in reading comprehension. It became notation for the teacher to assess the students as well as to improve the teacher’s strategy in teaching reading comprehension.