Teachers' Professional License – Subject Test: Early Grades

88 multiple-choice questions with four options, in 120 minutes (two hours). Calculators are not allowed, so the maths uses numbers you can work out in your head or on paper, 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 474 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.

Early Grades is a separate specialty with its own ETEC guide and standards, for teachers of grades one to three. It puts six subjects in one paper: growth characteristics, Islamic studies, Arabic, mathematics, science, and classroom environment and teaching methods. The Arabic and Mathematics tests are for single-subject teachers and go deeper into one subject, and the Kindergarten test is for teachers at the stage before first grade.

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.

26 standards in six domains, according to the candidate guide: Arabic 25%, science 20%, Islamic studies 16%, mathematics 16%, growth characteristics 12%, and a healthy classroom environment and teaching methods 11%.

Arabic at 25%, about 22 of the 88 questions. It has eight standards: parts of speech and case endings, nominative, accusative and genitive nouns, the present-tense verb, grammatical styles including numbers, spelling and punctuation, and reading skills. Science comes next at 20%, about 18 questions.

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.

No. The test measures the teacher's own subject knowledge: ETEC's samples include the case ending of the five nouns, writing 85 in words in its grammatical position, an inverse-proportion problem about workers, the area of a square using Pythagoras, and how temperature relates to the average kinetic energy of molecules. It also has classroom situations with early-grade pupils on growth, teaching methods and safety.

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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