This diagnostic test was created to recognize and analyze reading comprehension in grade 10° students of Institución Educativa Juan José Nieto de Cartagena de Indias. The exam has ten questions distributed the following way: two multiple-choice questions, two fill-in-the-gaps questions, two matching questions, two true or false questions, and two open-ended questions. The different questions, are related to the topic reported speech, especially with the verbs say and tell in their past tense.