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This study aimed at exploring the levels of the problems of the gifted students who are part of the gifted program in Irbid Governorate. It also aimed at exploring the effect of each variable of the following: (sex, grade, and family income). A questionnaire was prepared to achieve the study aims. It was composed of sixty (60) items, distributed into ten (10) domains: fear from failure, seeking perfectness, non-awareness of the parents of the gifted needs, inability to adjust, feeling of frustration and inability to change, high expectation, unchallenging syllabuses, postponement, lack of ability to make decisions due to multi-interests and low self – concept due to extreme vulnerability. The study was applied on an intended sample composed of (114) gifted and talented students with (82%) ratio of the study society. The result of the study showed that the most important problems, which faced the gifted students, were in the following dimensions: (seeking perfectness, high expectations, and the non - challenging syllabuses. The results also revealed no significant differences in the levels of the problems on all domains due to sex variable, except the third domain (non-awareness of the parents of the gifted needs), in favor of the male. In addition, the results revealed no significant differences due to class variable, except the sixth domain (high expectation), and the seventh domain (unchallenging syllabuses). Lastly, the results revealed no significant differences due to family income variable.  In general, the results of the study showed that the gifted students suffer from problems in all domains, and they need counseling services, which must be taken into consideration.(Published Abstract)