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AN ANALYSIS OF HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS IN READING SKILL AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT 2018 Abstract This study aimed at finding empirical evidences of higher order thinking skills (HOTS) distribution based on revised Bloom Taxonomy on the multiple-choice items in reading exercises of reading practices used in the English Dept. especially those provided for the students of 2018 intake. This employed a content analysis method to identify specific features of the questions items. The data were collected from the documents of reading exercises, table of check lists, table analysis and interview. The findings show that the HOTS (Higher order thinking skills) were only found in 44% of the question items (11 of 25 questions), meanwhile the rest was included in the lower order category. Among those of HOTS items, the most was analysis skills (24%), followed by evaluating skills (16%), and another skill of making/creating was only (4%). Thus, it can concluded that HOTS item was still very low and needed to be improved. Keywords: questions items of reading, reading skills, HOTS, analyzing, evaluation, creating.