Teachers' Professional License – Subject Test: Arabic Language 1

88 multiple-choice questions with four options, in 120 minutes (two hours). Calculators are not allowed and the test is in Arabic. Our mock exams are the same length.

Yes. Free questions: a 10-question diagnostic test covering the main units, no sign-up; at the end we compare your score with the license levels 50 (Practitioner), 70 (Advanced) and 80 (Expert), tell you how many questions you are short of the next level, and show your weakest units. The free practice test page lists the same questions with answers and an explanation for every option. The rest of the questions and the full mock exams come with a pass from SAR 26.

Question bank: full mock exams of 88 questions in 120 minutes, like the real test with a result for every unit, plus 484 explained questions across 6 units, every option explained, a review of your mistakes, and two ways to practise: see the answer right away, or sit a full timed mock. Every question is reviewed and referenced, ready to practise on your phone. Try the free questions and read the explanations before buying full access.

The minimum for a license is 50 (Practitioner Teacher), then 70 for Advanced Teacher and 80 or above for Expert Teacher, under the Professional License Regulations (Article 4). The level uses the lower of your General Educational and subject-specific scores, together with your qualification and years of experience. Scoring is criterion-referenced and wrong answers carry no penalty.

17 standards in six domains, according to the candidate guide: grammar and morphology 32%, teaching Arabic in primary school 22%, literature and appreciation 18%, receiving language 10%, producing language 10%, and language 8%. Grammar and morphology together with teaching methods are 54% of the test.

Arabic 1 is for primary-school teachers (6 domains and 17 standards) and Arabic 2 is for intermediate and secondary school teachers (8 domains and 25 standards). Each is a separate test with its own guide, standards and weights: Arabic 1 groups syntax and morphology in one domain worth 32%, while Arabic 2 separates them (28% and 6%) and adds literature and criticism, rhetoric and prosody. This site has a page for each: "Teacher License – Arabic 1" and "Teacher License – Arabic 2". A lower-primary (early grades) teacher sits neither of them and takes the "Early Grades" license subject instead.

The next sitting of the subject test is expected in late January 2027. The first 1448 AH sitting ran from 18 to 31 October 2026. Watch ETEC's page for when registration opens.

Yes. The question bank has 72 past questions, all from the 1446 and 1447 AH recall sets, each reviewed and every option explained. But the recall sets lean towards grammar and literature, and have far fewer questions on receiving language and teaching methods than their weights (10% and 22%) suggest. So practise every domain by its weight, not the recall sets alone.

Yes. Spelling, handwriting and punctuation are part of the producing language domain, which is 10% of the test in ETEC's guide. It has one standard (6.36.13) with eight indicators: oral communication and speaking, the naskh and ruq'a scripts, punctuation, added and dropped letters in some words, look-alike letters, the types of hamza, and functional vs creative writing. One of the guide's sample questions asks which sentence has no spelling errors in joining and cutting hamza.

They are eight of the 17 standards (6.36.1 to 6.36.8), and three of the ten sample questions in ETEC's guide fall in them: the silent ta' of feminine, dropping the nun in "mu'allimu al-madrasa" because of the construct, and the sound verb. Start with the first standard, which underpins what follows, then nominative, accusative and genitive nouns, the imperfect verb and followers, then the syntactic constructions, and morphology last. Parse each example yourself before reading the explanation of the options, because the questions ask for the status of a word in a construction, not the bare rule.

Four standards (6.36.14 to 6.36.17): teaching listening and speaking to beginners, teaching reading, teaching writing, and teaching grammar to beginners. These questions ask how you teach, not the rule itself. Two examples from ETEC's guide: describing pictures is a strategy for teaching speaking, and visual dictation (imla' manzur) is the kind where words are shown, then hidden, and students are asked to write them.

No. The Teachers' Professional License needs two tests: the subject-specific test in your own field and the General Educational Test, which is the same for every subject. Each costs SAR 100, and the level uses the lower of the two scores, so a high score in one does not lift your level above your score in the other.

No. Scores on this site are for practice only and are not an official result. This site is independent and is not affiliated with ETEC, Qiyas or any government body. They do show where you'd stand if the test were today: the full mock exam has the real question count and time, and your score is split by part of the exam so you can see where you lose points.

A subject-test result stays valid for five years from the date it is announced. The license itself is valid for five years, and you can apply to renew it in its final year, under the Professional License Regulations.

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