Teachers' Professional License – Subject Test: Early Grades: free practice test

Practice question Unit: Growth Characteristics

1. AContacting the family and counsellor about her sleep, diet and health ✓ Correct answer

   Correct. Sleep, diet and health affect a child's learning, and finding the cause of the change comes before any instructional step.

2. BLowering her classroom participation marks so that she becomes motivated

   Incorrect. Punishment does not address a possible health or environmental cause and may worsen the problem.

3. CMoving her to a lower-level group so her concentration improves

   Incorrect. Moving her without diagnosis may lower expectations of her and does not treat the cause of the drowsiness.

4. DGiving her extra homework to make up for what she missed

   Incorrect. Extra homework adds fatigue if the cause is lack of sleep or poor nutrition.

Reference: ETEC Early Grades Teacher Standards (2020), Standard 6.28.1 (developmental characteristics from before birth to middle childhood), indicator 3, p. 8

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Practice question Unit: Islamic Studies

1. AStopping at the end of the surah, then stopping on the basmalah, then beginning the surah

   Stopping at each point is a permitted way.

2. BStopping at the end of the surah, then joining the basmalah to the start of the next surah

   Stopping at the end of the surah and joining the basmalah to the next surah is permitted.

3. CJoining the end of the surah to the basmalah, stopping on it, then beginning the next surah ✓ Correct answer

   Joining the end of the surah to the basmalah and stopping on it is not permitted, since it suggests the basmalah belongs to the end of the surah.

4. DJoining the end of the surah, the basmalah and the start of the next surah

   Joining everything is a permitted way.

Reference: ETEC Early Grades Teacher Standards (2020), Standard 6.28.4 (revering the Quran, reciting it correctly and teaching tajweed), indicator 5, p. 9

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Practice question Unit: Islamic Studies

1. APresenting abstract rational proofs for the existence of the Creator

   Abstract proofs exceed first-graders' ability; they understand what is concrete.

2. BAsking them who brought about the rain and plants they see ✓ Correct answer

   Linking faith to concrete observations and simple questions suits the pupils' development and follows the Quran's way of drawing attention to signs in creation.

3. CRequiring them to memorise the definitions of the three types of tawhid

   Memorising abstract definitions does not suit this stage and builds no real understanding.

4. DPostponing talk about God until they grow older and can understand

   Postponing talk about God misses the chance to nurture sound fitrah at an early age.

Reference: ETEC Early Grades Teacher Standards (2020), Standard 6.28.5 (creed according to Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah), indicator 6, p. 9

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Practice question Unit: Arabic Language

1. AIn the position of accusative, direct object

   The object here is the first-person «ي»; the verbal noun is what performs the action of «سرَّ».

2. BIn the position of genitive, annexed noun

   There is no annexing noun or preposition before it, so it is not in the genitive position.

3. CIn the position of nominative, subject ✓ Correct answer

   It can be read as «يسرُّني نجاحُكَ», so the verbal noun is the subject of the verb «يسرّ», in the position of nominative.

4. DIn the position of nominative, predicate

   There is no subject-of-nominal-sentence here for it to be the predicate of; the sentence is verbal.

Reference: ETEC Early Grades Teacher Standards (2020), Standard 6.28.9 (nominative nouns and what governs them), indicator 2, p. 10

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Practice question Unit: Arabic Language

1. AA subject in the nominative, which is why it opens the sentence

   The subject here is the addressee's «تَ» in «أَكْرَمْتَ»; «مَنْ» is the one honored.

2. BA nominative subject of a nominal sentence unrelated to the verb after it

   «أَكْرَمْتَ» is a verb and subject that needs an object, and «مَنْ» is that object, not a subject of a nominal sentence.

3. CA direct object that came first optionally and may follow the verb instead

   Putting «مَنْ» first is obligatory, not optional, because an interrogative noun takes the front of the sentence and cannot be delayed.

4. DA direct object that must come first because interrogative nouns take the front position ✓ Correct answer

   «مَنْ» is an interrogative noun in the accusative position as the direct object, and it must come first because interrogative nouns hold the front of the sentence.

Reference: ETEC Early Grades Teacher Standards (2020), Standard 6.28.10 (accusative nouns and what governs them), indicator 2, p. 10

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Practice question Unit: Mathematics

1. A19 ✓ Correct answer

   Brackets first: 8; then 3 × 8 = 24; 24 ÷ 2 = 12; 7 + 12 = 19.

2. B40

   This works strictly left to right, ignoring the priority of multiplication and division.

3. C41

   This ignores the brackets: 7 + 36 − 2.

4. D31

   This forgets the division by 2, giving 7 + 24.

Reference: ETEC Early Grades Teacher Standards (2020), Standard 6.28.16 (numbers and operations), indicator 3, p. 11

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Practice question Unit: Mathematics

1. A36°

   This is the smaller angle (90 × 2 ÷ 5), not the larger one.

2. B60°

   This comes from 90 × 2 ÷ 3, which misapplies the ratio to the total.

3. C54° ✓ Correct answer

   Correct: complementary angles sum to 90°, so the larger angle is 90 × 3 ÷ 5 = 54°.

4. D72°

   This comes from using 180° instead of 90°, confusing complementary with supplementary angles.

Reference: ETEC Early Grades Teacher Standards (2020), Standard 6.28.17 (geometry concepts), indicator 1, p. 11

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Practice question Unit: Science

1. ABecause it is a solid, and living things are never solid

   Physical state does not decide life; living things have hard parts such as shells and bones.

2. BBecause it contains salt instead of water inside it

   The kind of substance is not the test of life; living things contain many minerals.

3. CBecause it does not change in light or in darkness

   The crystal does not react to light, but many living things also do not, so this is not the test.

4. DBecause it grows by material settling on it from outside, and it has no cells ✓ Correct answer

   A crystal grows by outside build-up, while a living thing grows from within through metabolism and cell division.

Reference: ETEC Early Grades Teacher Standards (2020), Standard 6.28.20 (characteristics and structure of living things), indicator 1, p. 12

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Practice question Unit: Science

1. Aorganism → community → population → ecosystem → biosphere

   A population (one species) is smaller than a community (many species), so it cannot come after it.

2. Bpopulation → organism → community → biosphere → ecosystem

   One organism is smaller than a population, and an ecosystem is smaller than the biosphere that contains all ecosystems.

3. Corganism → population → ecosystem → community → biosphere

   An ecosystem includes the community plus its non-living parts, so it is larger than the community.

4. Dorganism → population → community → ecosystem → biosphere ✓ Correct answer

   The order starts with one individual, then one species, then several species together, then the non-living parts are added, and it ends with all life on Earth.

Reference: ETEC Early Grades Teacher Standards (2020), Standard 6.28.21 (ecology, ecosystems and environmental problems), indicator 1, p. 12

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Practice question Unit: Healthy Classroom Environment and Teaching Methods

1. ANames three pet animals, lists their benefits to people, and classifies them as pets and non-pets

   All three objectives are cognitive (naming, listing, classifying), so there is no psychomotor or affective side.

2. BDraws a pet animal, cuts out its picture, and pastes it in the allotted place

   All three are psychomotor (drawing, cutting, pasting), with no cognitive or affective objective.

3. CNames three pet animals, draws an animal he likes, and expresses concern for kindness to it ✓ Correct answer

   Naming is cognitive, drawing is psychomotor, and expressing concern for kindness is affective, so the domains vary.

4. DLoves pet animals, feels happy when seeing them, and makes a point of being kind to them

   All three are affective (love, happiness, kindness), with no cognitive or psychomotor side.

Reference: ETEC Early Grades Teacher Standards (2020), Standard 6.28.25 (teaching methods and effective learning experiences), indicator 1, p. 13

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