Abstract This research aims at measuring exam disturbance for preparatory stage stydents, and also knowing the difference in exam disturbance for preparatory stage students in the light of gender variable(males / females). The research community consists of preparatory stage students for the year (2013/2014) where the sample includes (100) students, the researcher has depended on the scale prepared by Abu Azab (2008), after making validity and reliability. To process the research data, the researcher has depended on SPSS, and the results showed the exam disturbance for the sample individuals and there is a significant difference in exam disturbance for the sample individuals according to the gender variable (males/ females). In the light of these results, the researcher has made a number of recommendations such as the neccissty of providing students with signs guide them how they invest plan their time, getting ready for the exam and preparing active procedures in dealing with them. Some suggestions have been also presented such as: conducting a similar study using different samples to investigate the exam disturbance for them.