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The outstanding students in preparatory schools for girls encounter new experiences, as they have to deal and collaborate with such experience according to their capacities and abilities, although they may have certain level of conceitedness and self-overconfidence because of sentiments of difference from others and individuation, and having extraordinary, unlimited and pivotal capabilities, along with an abundant level of activeness as well as having strong motives for learning and working, in addition to an enthusiastic motivation for exploration, investigation and experimentation. This causes some problems and difficulties for such outstanding students, since the self-overconfidence is considered a negative trait, which may obstruct the self-overconfident student and deprives her from success, in which her talents and excellence can qualify her to achieve it. This negative feature may perhaps disrupt the relationship between such students and their teachers, the outstanding student’s curiousness, their persistent movements and contiguous enquiries often cause state of confusion and discomfort to teachers, and leading ultimately to more troubles. Teachers may look to those excellent students as being chaotic, undisciplined persons, abusers and troublemakers. Therefore, those students should be assisted to resisted these pressures and comprehend, their intellectual, social and emotional need at very phase of their evolution for the effective and significant role played by this category in building the society and its development. This paper aims at discovering the level of over-self confidence in outstanding girl students of preparatory schools. In order to achieve the research goal, the researcher designs and constructs a Self-Overconfidence Scale, and applies the research instruments on the research sample, which has been constituted by (400) outstanding girl students, who were chosen randomly from the preparatory schools of General Directorate of Education in Diyala. After collecting and processing the data statically, the researcher concludes that there is higher level of self-overconfidence in outstanding girls student of preparatory schools. In the light of the achieved results, the researcher summed up with bunch of recommendation and suggestion. (Published Abstract)