This article explores the perception of law degree students at Alberto Hurtado University (Chile) about the reading given in the Introduction to Law course. The investigation arises, then, from the need to rationalize, on one side, the amount of text and, on the other side, the type of text distributed in that course. This is an exploratory, descriptive and transectional research where 66 students participated through a questionnaire about the most complex course of first year and about the reason of that complexity. The data shows that students agree on what makes a course complex, in terms of reading, its study materials.