Arabic 1 Teacher License Past Questions: 72 Explained, and What Recall Sets Miss

Last verified: 31 October 2026. The weights come from ETEC's candidate guide for the Arabic 1 test, and the past-question counts from our question bank. This is an independent guide, not affiliated with ETEC, the National Center for Assessment (Qiyas), the Ministry of Education or any government body.

In short: the question bank has 72 past questions for the Arabic 1 teacher license test, all from the 1446 and 1447 AH recall sets, each reviewed and explained option by option. But the recall sets lean towards grammar and literature and have far fewer questions on receiving language and teaching methods than their weights in the test (10% and 22%), so use them to learn the question style, and spread your study across the six domains by their weights in ETEC's guide.

What recall sets (tajmi'at) are

Recall sets are questions that candidates remember after leaving the test and pass around in files and channels. So the wording sometimes arrives incomplete, figures get lost and wrong answers spread. In our review we found circulating answers that were wrong and questions that allowed more than one answer. Before we put any of them in the bank, we check the answer, correct or rewrite the stem, and explain every option along with the ETEC standard it tests. In the bank these questions are labelled "Past exam questions".

How many past questions in each domain

The first column is the domain's weight in ETEC's guide, the second is how many past questions we have in that domain and their share of the 72.

What the recall sets miss

The biggest gaps are in two domains. Receiving language (reading, listening and analysing a text) is 10% of the test in ETEC's guide, yet the recall sets have no questions on it at all. Teaching methods is 22% of the test and has only 4. Grammar and morphology, on the other hand, has 35 of the 72, which is 49% of the recall sets, while its weight in the test is 32%.

The likely reason is that people who recall questions after the test remember i'rab examples and literary quotations better than reading-comprehension and teaching-strategy questions. If you study from the recall sets alone, you walk in having skipped about a third of the test.

How to practise with them

1. Start with the free questions (20 questions spread over the domains by weight) to find your weakest domain before you open any file.
2. Start with grammar and morphology because it is the largest domain, then give teaching methods, receiving language and producing language more time than the recall sets suggest. The eight-week plan and the standards and weights table are built on ETEC's guide.
3. Solve the past questions inside each unit together with its other questions, not on their own, so you do not get used only to the domains people remember most.
4. Keep the full mock exam for the last two weeks; it is spread over the domains by weight, like the test.

Remember that your license level is set by the lower of this test and the General Educational test. Related tests on this site: the General Educational test and Arabic 2 for intermediate and secondary teachers.

Your score on our questions is an estimate of readiness, not an official result. If the free questions show a weakness in a domain the recall sets barely cover, that is the domain to start with.