One of the very important actions of Iran's exceptional 
education organization is to assess the academic readiness of 
children upon entering primary school, but this plan is facing 
important challenges. Therefore, the aim of the current study 
was to identify the existing challenges and provide the 
necessary strategies to overcome these challenges, using a 
systematic review method. In this way, theses and articles 
published in the years 1370 to 1400 in googlescholar, magiran, 
cilivica, SID, irandoc, and noormags databases were examined 
by searching the keywords of academic readiness, academic 
readiness assessment, and academic readiness test. Finally, 
based on the entry criteria, among the 88 investigated sources, 
9 sources were included in the research and the results were 
classified, summarized and reported. The evaluation of the 
reviewed sources showed that the lack of an internal 
theoretical model appropriate to the culture, reliance on 
standardization instead of test construction, weak 
characteristics of psychometrics, and the predominant use of 
the classic theory of validity, which is known as the weak 
theory of psychometrics, were the most important challenges 
of this project. Due to the lack of a native model of academic 
preparation, it is necessary to develop a conceptual model 
arising from culture and build the necessary tools based on that 
model, using new psychometric methods such as questionanswer theory and network analysis.