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The aim of this study is to be able to determine the decision-making and thinking styles of students who participate in the special skill exams.The study group includes 453 men and 247 girls who participate in the special skill exams at the University of Atatürk and the University of Kafkas. Epstein and Ark.Adaptation to Turkish developed by (1996)1 was applied to students who participated in the research of the scale of the rational-life thinking styles made by Discovery(2000)2 and the scale of the decision-making styles adapted to Turkish by Taşdelen (2002)4 developed by Scott and Burce (1995)3. In the analysis and interpretation of the data, the t test, using the Multiple Linear Regression (Multiple Linear Regression), took the meaning P<0,05. The SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) program is used to evaluate data and find calculated values. As a result of this study, there was no significant difference between gender and branches in terms of decision-making and thinking styles of students who participated in the Special Talent Exam. Also, when we look at the relationships levels, it has been revealed that the students’ thinking styles have a meaningful relationship between the subdimensions of the decision-making styles of rational decision-making, intuitive decision-making, dependent decision-making, avoidance decision-making, instant decision-making. The aim of this study is to define the thinking and decision making styles of the student who participates in the special ability examination. The group of this search is composed of total 700 students (453 male students and 247 female students) that participate in the special ability examination of Atatürk and Kafkas University Physical Education and Sport Department. "Experiential and Rational Thinking Style Scale" which was developed by Epstein and others (1996)1 and translated into Turkish by Buluo (2000)2 and also "Decision Making Style Scale" which was developed by Scott and Burce (1995)3 and translated into Turkish by Taodelen (2002)4 was executed to the participant students. In determining and commenting the data, the meaningfulness was set at P< 0,05 by using t test and Multiple Linear Regression. SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) was used to analyze the data and find the calculated value. As a result of this study, it was not found that there was a difference in significance between sexualities and branches in respect of the thinking and decision making styles of the student who participates in special ability examination. Besides, when we looked at the level of relationship, between the thinking styles of the students and the subcategories of decision making style of the students which were the rational decision making, the intuitive decision making, the dependent decision making, the avoidant decision making and the spontaneous decision making were occurred to be a meaning relationship. Keywords: Special Ability Examination, Decision Making Styles, Thinking Styles.