Gifted Education License Test Content: 3 Domains, 8 Standards, Weights

Last checked: 10 November 2026. The sources are ETEC's candidate guide for the Gifted Education professional license test (1441 AH/2020, trial edition) and the Gifted Education Teacher Standards, both from the Education and Training Evaluation Commission, and the professional license page on the ETEC website. 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 Gifted Education subject test is multiple choice with four options, covering 8 standards in three domains. The largest domain is Planning Instruction at 37%, then Motivating and Supporting Learning at 35% and Structure of Giftedness and Talent at 28%; the largest single standard is teaching methods and strategies for gifted students (16%). ETEC's page says subject tests have 60 to 88 questions depending on the subject. Each question targets one indicator of one standard, and the questions do not have to cover every indicator.

Domains, standards and weights

Weights come from the candidate guide (pp. 6 and 7); the detailed indicators for each standard are in the standards document (pp. 8 to 11). Weights are shares of the standards content; the guide does not turn them into question counts. The subject standards are one part of the gifted teacher standards; the general standards shared by all subjects are covered by the General Educational Test.

What each domain tests

• Structure of Giftedness and Talent (28%): the terms giftedness, talent and creativity, the history of the field worldwide and in the Kingdom, laws and agreements, theories of giftedness, heredity and environment, gifted traits at each age, and problems such as heightened sensitivity, perfectionism and unstable self-esteem.
• Planning Instruction (37%): the stages of identification and nomination, formal and informal tools and their limits, special groups such as twice-exceptional students and underachievers, types of acceleration, enrichment and mentorship and choosing the right service, and the principles of gifted curricula, the Parallel Curriculum, curriculum compacting and guidance programmes.
• Motivating and Supporting Learning (35%): higher-order thinking activities and thinking methods in daily teaching, projects and creative products, adapting plans to differences, using technology and distance learning, and evaluating students and programmes on several criteria, explaining results and keeping them confidential.

What the questions look like

The guide gives eight sample questions linked to their standards, such as one on which scale is not used to measure mental abilities, one on acceleration versus enrichment, one on the purpose of criterion-referenced tests, and one on the kind of assessment that collects a student's work to document progress. It also has twenty practice questions, and notes that the samples do not cover every part of the test or show how easy or hard it is.

Test day and scores

• Language: Arabic.
• Calculators: not allowed.
• The subject test is paper-based or computer-based depending on the subject, and the type shows in your profile. ETEC gives two hours for paper-based tests.
• The Professional License Regulations for Educational Jobs (Article 4) set a minimum score of 50 in both the General Educational Test and the subject test, with higher levels needing 70 and then 80 together with qualification and years of experience.

What our practice covers

Our practice questions cover all 8 standards, with the number of questions per domain following the guide's weights, and every question explains each option and points to its standard and indicator. Many are situations from identification committees, classrooms and enrichment programmes asking for the best decision or explanation.