Biology Teacher License Test Registration: Fees, Steps and Results

Last verified: 30 October 2026. Fees and dates can change, so check everything on the Teachers' Professional License page on the Education and Training Evaluation Commission (ETEC) website before you pay. This guide is independent: it is not affiliated with ETEC, Qiyas (the National Center for Assessment), the Ministry of Education or any government body. It cannot register on your behalf.

In short: you register for the biology subject test from your profile on the e-services portal and pay SAR 100. The license also needs the General Educational Test, paid separately at SAR 100, and then SAR 100 when the license is issued.

Fees

The test fees come from the FAQ on ETEC's page, and the issue or upgrade fee from Article 9 of the Professional License Regulations for Educational Jobs. Someone who passes both tests at the first attempt pays SAR 300 in total to get the license issued.

Registration steps

1. Go to ETEC's e-services portal and open your beneficiary profile, or create an account if you do not have one.
2. Register for the biology subject test during the announced registration window, and check that the subject name you pick matches your own field. Biology has a single test, so there are no levels to choose between. We have not tried the portal ourselves because it requires a login, so the subject's name there may differ.
3. Pay the test fee (SAR 100) from your profile on the portal. After paying you can change or delete the booking within the deadline given below.
4. Sit the test on the day with a valid ID (see "Test day" below).
5. Check your result in your profile once it is announced.

ETEC has published a visual registration guide for the subject-specific license tests (2023) that walks through the steps with screenshots.

Paper or computer?

ETEC says the subject test can be on paper or on computer depending on the subject, and that the type appears in your personal profile. Check yours in your profile after you register. The type sets your deadline for changing the booking:

Test day

• Language: Arabic.
• Calculator: not allowed.
• Accepted ID: national ID for Saudis, iqama for non-Saudis, a passport, or a Saudi driving licence.
• Advice from ETEC's Biology guide: finish your review a day or two before the test, rest, eat a light meal before you go in, and check you have the required documents.

Results and levels

Scoring is criterion-referenced and wrong answers carry no penalty. The Regulations (Article 4) set the levels at these scores:

The level uses the lower of the subject-test and General Educational Test scores, once the qualification and years-of-experience conditions in the Article 4 table are met. So with 85 in biology and 55 in the General Educational Test, your counted score is 55.

Getting the license issued after you pass

The Regulations (Article 5) describe three stages: registering for the tests through the electronic system, sitting both tests and receiving the results, and then applying for the license. You apply at the level whose conditions you meet in full (score, qualification and years of experience) and pay SAR 100, and ETEC issues it. You apply through the Professional Licenses platform that ETEC's page links to.

The license is not issued automatically when your result appears, so do not delay the application. If you issue it within one calendar year of passing your latest test, it is valid for five years from the issue date; if you wait longer than a year, the five years run from the end of that year (Article 6).

Validity

• Test result: valid for five years from the date it is announced.
• License: valid for five years, and you can apply to renew it in its final year (Articles 6 and 7).

Before you pay the SAR 100 test fee, take the free questions and see where you stand in life processes, immunity and disease (21%) and the other domains. Then read what the test covers and its weights.