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This study aims to investigate the pattern of reading strategy employed by low, middle, and high level EFL students. This study used a case study method with retrospection and interview analysis. The participants were fifteen junior high school students from Tangerang. This study focuses on three types of reading comprehension including main idea, supporting idea, and inference. The data were analyzed based on the retrospection and interview results. The study reveals four findings related to the research questions. First, the reading strategies employed by low level EFL students that mostly used getting idea quickly and translating. Second, the reading strategies employed by middle level EFL students that mostly used getting idea quickly and highlighting. Third, the reading strategies employed by high level EFL students that mostly used getting idea quickly and translating. Finally, the effects of the reading strategies to the reading comprehension that showed positive effect regarding to the use of getting the idea quickly. To conclude, the use of getting the idea quickly strategy improved significant effect for EFL students.