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The research mainly aims to identify the extent to which developed physics books are obtained in Saudi Arabia for the content standards for international physics Olympics competitions, through the analysis of the content of those curricula.in order to achieve the main aim of the research, the descriptive analytical method which based on the content analysis have been used, it is considered to be a suitable way for the analysis of curricula and to collect the quantitative data. The research community consisted of all physics developed books for secondary level, which are (6) books spread over three grades, first, second and third of secondary, two books for each educational level, one is for the first semester and the second for the second semester which is the revised and established to be taught for the academic year 1436 / 1437 a.h. The research questions are represented in the following main question: to what extent does physics developed curricula enrolled in Saudi Arabia for the content standards of the international physics Olympics competitions? To answer this question the research was used as a tool to analyze the content and put out content standards for international physics Olympics competitions and included four fields: the field of nature which is established; includes (3) basic standards that has (6) sub-standards, the field of theoretical skills; includes (6) basic standards that has (154) sub-standards, the field of practical skills; include (4) basic standards that has (8) sub-standards and the field of mathematics; includes (9) basic standards that has (39) sub-standards. The spss program was used in the statistical processing to calculate the frequencies and percentages to determine the extent to which those standards are approached. The research found a set of results; which are: the percentage of approaching the developed physics books for secondary level in Saudi Arabia of the standards of the nature which is established (58.5%) which is a low percentage. The percentage of approaching the developed physics books for secondary level in Saudi Arabia of the standards of theoretical skills is (31.5%) which is a very low percentage. The percentage of approaching the developed physics books for secondary level in Saudi Arabia of the standards of practical skills is (8.7%) which is a very low percentage. The percentage of approaching the developed physics books for secondary level in Saudi Arabia of the standards of mathematics standards (1.4%) which is a very low percentage in physics curricula, and the less books which were approached mathematics standards is the third-grade book and the highest is the first-grade book. (Published Abstract)