This paper attempts to suggests a procedure for the academic English reading proficiency of Albaha university. The purpose behind the study is to suggest a testing procedure of reading proficiency skills preparing Saudi student of English for academic prospectives. The study provides full account of the supposition proficiency testing of English elucidating the specifications and methods of this test. Self-assessment items were used to measure reading proficiency in English and validated using

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... n International English Language Testing System Academic Reading Module. The test is also operated remedy problematic areas of reading such as problems that students have deciphering unfamiliar vocabulary items and slow reading, guessing meaning of words from context. The reading proficiency test of English text is expected to raise the reading abilities of students level above the linguistic threshold level.