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The current study aims at shedding light on the concept "tendency to postponement "by presenting the theoretical framework of the topic and the previous studies which tackled with it. Also, it aims at measuring the degree of the tendency to postponement of the preparatory school students as well as identifying the statistical differences in this tendency due to the variables of sex(males and females),branch(scientific and literary).The study sample consists of (200) Baqubah preparatory school students. The researcher adopted Abu-Ghazal's device(2012)which consists of (21)items. Then, the researcher analyzed the items statistically by using the terminal comparison (discriminatory power),and the relation of each item to the whole .Later, the face validity was found out by exposing the tool to the jury who was specialized in pedagogical and psychological sciences whereas the reliability of the study was derived by the process of retesting which got(87%),also, the researcher used the statistical package for social science(SPSS)to analyze the data statistically by using (Pearson Correlation coefficient , and the T-test for two independent samples, and the T-test for one sample).The findings of the study revealed that there is tendency to the postponement and the males have such tendency more than the females. Furthermore, it showed that the literary branch/preparatory school students have such tendency more than those of the scientific branch students. Finally, the recommendations and suggestions were given. (Published Abstract)