The investigation here presented, seeks the strengthening of the generic competition in critical reading through a didactic strategy, applied to students, keeping in consideration the results of the test from the Institutional System for Evaluation of Competences "SIEC" (by its acronym in Spanish), data collection, the analysis and the presented proposal, we hope they contribute to the improvement in the level of performance of the competition, as well to future investigation in this field. The methodological process used is based on a qualitative, descriptive, transversal and applied research. For the achievement of this, the project is headed to the development of an applied type research, made under the transversal purpose of a temporal descriptive approach, with a qualitative structure taken from the context of a field experiment, with a social critical knowledge focus. From the above, the process of indexed consult begins on accompaniment strategies with successful and significant results on the target population, associated with academic, cognitive and pedagogical scenarios, also the application of data collection instruments such as surveys for students and professors and interviews to deans, identifying the strategies executed previously by the nursery programs in the headquarters in Bucaramanga and psychology in Barrancabermeja headquarters, to finally propose a didactic strategy of critical reading improvement of the students of the Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, keeping with the strengthening and advances of the results of the next SIEC tests applied