The aim of this study was to explore the reading comprehension of students in different states, universities and courses. 1022 university students from Administration, Law, Psychology, Nursing, Dentistry, Physical Education e Mathematics courses from public and private universities in the states of São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Paraná participated in the study. A text of 250 words, prepared according to the Cloze technique, in its traditional version which omits all the fifth words of the text was used. The application was collective and the data were submitted to inferential and descriptive statistics. The skill of reading comprehension was low and there was no difference in difficulty related to the grammatical classes. The data were discussed in terms of their implications for the psychoeducational assessment area.
Reading; Cloze’s technique; Reading skills; Colleges; College students
