Keywords: learning style, natural science students, social science students, reading comprehension this study was intended to discover which type of sensory learning style mostly preferred by students from natural science and social science majors at sma negeri 8 banda aceh. it was also aimed at investigating significant difference between students’ learning style preferences and their reading comprehension achievement. the study was presented in quantitative method and designed in causal comparative research. it took 23 natural science and 23 social science students as the subject of this study, with total number of 46 participants. a learning style questionnaire and a reading comprehension test were employed for gathering the data. analysis of variance (anova) was used to analyze the data. the study revealed that students from natural science and social science majors mostly preferred different types of sensory learning style while comprehending reading materials. most natural