The aim of this research was to identify the levels of reading comprehension, the use of strategies and the motivation towards reading, and to relate them to different sociodemographic and academic variables, in students of the Biology career of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Campus Iztacala. Fifty-four students participated and were remotely applied the Instrument for Assessing Reading Comprehension in University Students, the Inventory of Metacognitive Strategies and Reading Motivation and a self-report to measure various academic and socio-demographic variables. The results showed a low level of reading comprehension, given that only 45% of the test was answered correctly; they reported a high use of strategies, -those related to reading analysis, identification of information and motivation towards reading general texts- and only statistically significant relati...