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The purposes of this study was to determine the level of problem solving in order skills and mental process among students in the faculty of sport science at Moata university, in order to investigate the differences of problem solving skills and mental processes among students according to some variables such as gender, years of study, GPA, the desire. Moreover, this study aimed at identifying statistical significant relationship between the problemsolving skills and the mental processes. The number of participants in this study included a sample of (n = 121) male and female students who were chosen randomly from the population of the study. The researchers designed an instrument that contains (26) items to evaluate the problem-solving skills. Furthermore, the Schmeck scale (Schmeck et al, 1977) was utilized to assess the students’ mental learning processes. The results of study revealed that the level of problem solving skills of students ranged from good to very good, while the mental processes ranged from weak to average. Regarding the differences among the independent variables, the results revealed no existence of significant differences due to studied variables (gender, year of study, GPA, and the desire). Finally, no significant relationship was found among problem solving skills and mental processes, except between the deep processing and decision-making.(Published Abstract)