History Teacher License Past Questions: 64 Explained, and What Recall Sets Miss

Last verified: 31 October 2026. The weights come from ETEC's candidate guide for History teachers, and the past-question counts from our question bank. 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 question bank has 64 past questions for the History teacher license test, from the 1446 AH and 1447 AH recall sets, each reviewed and explained option by option. But the recall sets are not spread across the domains the way the test is, so use them to learn the question style, and spread your study across the seven domains by their weights in ETEC's guide.

What recall sets (tajmi'at) are

Recall sets are questions that candidates remember after leaving the test and pass around in files and channels. So the wording sometimes arrives incomplete, wrong answers spread, and Hijri and Gregorian years get mixed up. Before we put any of them in the bank, we check the answer, rewrite the stem if it allows more than one answer, and explain every option along with the ETEC standard it tests. Questions that contradict the Kingdom's established account of its history, or that historians disagree on, are not in the bank. In the bank these questions are labelled "Past exam questions".

How many past questions in each domain

The first column is the domain's weight in ETEC's guide, the second is how many past questions we have in that domain and their share of the 64. Of these, 35 come from the 1446 AH recall sets and 29 from the 1447 AH sets.

What the recall sets miss

The biggest gap is history skills and teaching methods: 7 of the 64 (11%) against a test weight of 27%, and together with Islamic history it is one of the two largest domains. Anyone who relies on recall sets alone leaves nearly a quarter of the test untrained: historical thinking and judging accounts, teaching methods, inquiry, maps and timelines.

At the other end, Islamic history has 22 (34%) against a weight of 27%, because questions on names, battles and years are easy to remember. Saudi history has 13 (20%) against 23%, close to its weight. The development of history as a discipline has 5 (8%) against 3%, and medieval history (Europe and the New World) has 5 (8%) against 5%, so do not spend more time on them than their weight.

How to practise with them

1. Start with the free questions (10 questions covering the seven domains) to find your weakest domain before you open any file.
2. Set aside fixed time every week for history skills and teaching methods: it is one of the largest domains and one the recall sets cover least. The eight-week plan and the standards and weights table are built on ETEC's guide.
3. Solve the past questions inside each unit together with its other questions, not on their own, so you do not get used only to the domains people remember most.
4. Keep the full mock exam for the last two weeks; it is spread over the domains by weight, like the test.

Remember that your license level is set by the lower of this test and the General Educational test. A related test on this site: the General Educational test.

Your score on our questions shows where you'd stand if the test were today; it is not an official result. If the free questions show a weakness in a domain the recall sets barely cover, that is the domain to start with.