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This study aimed to introduce the level of life pressures, and its relation with cognitive failure among the preparatory year students of AL-Qasim University. The study sample consisted of the students who enrolled in the preparatory year's program at Al-Qasim University, from the second level, and who numbered (267) students, (67) of highest achievers, and (150) of normal students. The correlative, analytical descriptive method was used, as also, the scale of life pressures from the researcher preparation, and Broadbent and his colleagues scale for cognitive failure (Broadbent, et al, 1982). The study results indicated that the life pressures level among preparatory year students at AlQasim University was moderate, where the field of ' study pressures' got the highest level. And that there are statistically significant differences of life pressures due to the effect academic achievement, and the differences were in favour of the normal students in all fields and in the total degree. Moreover, the level of emotional-cognitive failure among the preparatory year students at Al-Qasim University was moderate. And that there are statistically significant differences due to effect of academic achievement, and the differences were in favour of the normal students. And finally, that there is a positive statistically significant relationship between the level of life pressure and the cognitive failure. (Published Abstract)