Chemistry Teacher License Test Content: 7 Domains, 17 Standards and Weights

Last verified: 30 October 2026. Our sources are the candidate guide for the chemistry teachers' license test and the chemistry teachers' standards, both published by the Education and Training Evaluation Commission (ETEC) (1441 AH / 2020 edition; the latest edition, and the guide is a trial edition). This guide is independent: it is not affiliated with ETEC, Qiyas (the National Center for Assessment), the Ministry of Education or any government body.

In short: the chemistry test measures 17 standards in seven domains. The domain on gas laws, stoichiometry, solutions, acids and bases is 28% on its own, followed by hydrocarbons and functional groups at 18%, then kinetics, thermochemistry, electrochemistry and equilibrium at 17%. Chemistry has a single test, so there is no level 1 and level 2 as in science.

One level for chemistry

ETEC publishes one guide and one standards document for chemistry, unlike science, which has two tests (Science 1 for primary and Science 2 for middle school). If you teach chemistry, this is your subject test, and it goes with the General Educational Test that the license also requires.

Test format

The seven domains and their weights

These weights come from the figure and table on pages 6 and 7 of the candidate guide.

Each question tests one indicator, and the test does not have to cover every indicator.

All 17 standards, one by one

Standard names are as in the standards document, and the "What it tests" column is our summary of their indicators. We list each standard under the domain where the guide's table places it, which is why 6.7.14 and 6.7.15 sit in the first domain and 6.7.9 sits with electrochemistry.

History, Nature and Applications of Chemistry and Its Links to Other Sciences (12%)

Laboratory Work and Basic Mathematical Skills (6%)

Matter, Its Properties and the Periodic Table (9%)

Gas Laws, Stoichiometry, Solutions, Acids and Bases (28%)

Kinetics, Thermochemistry, Electrochemistry and Equilibrium (17%)

Hydrocarbons and Functional Groups in Organic Compounds (18%)

Core Skills and Methods of Teaching Chemistry (10%)

The style of questions in ETEC's guide

The guide shows ten sample questions with the reasoning behind each answer, then twenty-five practice questions with an answer key that links each question to its standard and indicator. They show the pattern of the test:

• Direct concepts: "A scientific guess that can be tested is a…" The answer is a hypothesis. And KHCO₃ is classed as a compound.
• Calculations without a calculator: the mass of NaOH in 100.0 mL of a 1.5 M solution is 6 g (0.15 mol × 40). The NaOH concentration neutralised by 22 mL of 0.1 M H₂SO₄ is 0.44 M, and the pH of 1.0×10⁻⁵ M HCl is 5. Atomic masses are given in the question, such as (H=1, O=16, Na=23).
• Significant figures: adding masses with different significant figures and writing the total in scientific notation (1.13×10²).
• Electrochemistry: E° of a cell from two standard reduction potentials (+1.54 V for an Ag/Cr cell), and the oxidation number of Mn in MnO₄⁻.
• Organic chemistry: the product of substituting benzene with nitric acid (C₆H₅NO₂), the IUPAC name of CH₃CH₂CHClCH₃ (2-chlorobutane), and what sucrose is made of.
• Safety and teaching: the first step when a chemical spills on your foot is to wash it with water, and which activity best widens students' understanding of scientific inquiry (simulation software).
• Reading figures: a solubility curve, a titration curve and a piece of lab apparatus.

ETEC itself notes that the guide's examples do not cover every aspect of the test and do not reflect how easy or hard the real questions are.

How to use this table when you study

1. Start with the free questions to see which domains are weakest for you.
2. Order your time by weight: calculations, gases, solutions, acids and bases first, then organic chemistry, then kinetics, equilibrium and electrochemistry. The eight-week plan is built on these weights.
3. Do not neglect the small domains. History of chemistry, lab work and chemistry teaching together are about 28% of the questions (roughly 24).
4. Practise calculations without a calculator from day one: moles, concentrations, pH, cell potential and significant figures.

Your score on our questions is an estimate of readiness, not an official result. Each unit in unit practice is one of these seven domains, so if the free questions show a weakness in chemical calculations or hydrocarbons, you can practise that domain on its own.