How to Prepare for the Islamic Education 2 Teacher License Test: An 8-Week Plan by Domain Weight

Last verified: 31 October 2026. The weights come from the candidate guide for Islamic Education 2 teachers (pp. 6-7) and the standards from the Islamic Education 2 standards document. 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: an eight-week plan that divides your time by domain weight: transactions, family and criminal law about two weeks (21%), then a week each for the fiqh of worship, the Qur'an and tafsir, and creed and sects, half a week each for usul al-fiqh, hadith, Islamic culture, and teaching the Shari'a sciences, and a final review week with full mock exams. The next sitting is expected in late January 2027, so adjust the plan to finish before your date (dates).

How we split the time

Fiqh in its three branches is 46% of the questions by the guide's table, which is why it takes roughly the first three weeks. If a domain is already strong from your studies or teaching, shorten its time and add it to your weakest one after the week-1 diagnosis.

Rules that apply every week

• Ruling, then evidence: ETEC's fiqh indicators ask for the ruling, the evidence for it and the rationale behind it. For every issue, write its ruling, evidence and wisdom in one line.
• Read the standard, then solve: each standard has indicators in the test content guide, and each question measures one indicator. Start each topic with its indicators, then solve its questions in practice mode.
• Read the explanation of every option: a wrong option shows you how you fall for it over one word, so write down what you got wrong.
• Memorise a little every day: standard 6.1.1 includes memorising al-Mufassal and standard 6.1.3 includes memorising at least 40 concise hadiths. Spread this over the eight weeks instead of leaving it to the end.
• Review your mistakes: every Sunday, redo last week's questions that you got wrong.
• End of every week: practise that week's units (weeks 1 to 5), then a timed full mock exam from week 6.

Week 1: diagnosis and the fiqh of transactions

• Day one: the free questions to see where you stand across the domains.
• 6.1.8: permitted and forbidden dealings, the causes of prohibition (riba, gharar, harm), sales and their conditions and the types of option, partnerships, found property and gifts, and modern dealings (murabaha, tawarruq, instalments, insurance).
• 6.1.9 (first half): marriage and its rulings, engagement, dowry and maintenance, and the differences between talaq, khul', ila', zihar and li'an.
• End of the week: practise standards 6.1.8 and 6.1.9, and note your three weakest standards from the diagnosis.

Week 2: family, inheritance and criminal law

• 6.1.9 (second half): the waiting period, nursing and custody, and inheritance: causes and barriers, fixed shares and their amounts, residuary heirs and exclusion. Work through the estate-division examples on paper yourself before reading the explanation.
• 6.1.10: food and drink, hunting and slaughter, the awra of those under obligation, clothing, and the difference between oaths and vows and the expiation of each.
• 6.1.11: the types of killing and their rulings, qisas and diyat, the difference between hadd and ta'zir, the hudud, the judiciary and evidence.
• End of the week: practise standards 6.1.9 to 6.1.11.

Week 3: the fiqh of worship

• 6.1.6: purification (wudu and what breaks it, ghusl, tayammum, wiping over footwear, menstruation and postnatal bleeding) and prayer (times, conditions, pillars, obligatory acts and sunnahs, Friday, Eid, eclipse and rain prayers, people with excuses).
• 6.1.7: zakat, its wealth and recipients, fasting, what invalidates it, makeup and expiation, Hajj and Umra, ihram and its prohibitions and the order of the rites, and the difference between hady, udhiyah and aqiqah. The guide's example on how the farewell tawaf relates to Hajj as the first tashahhud relates to prayer shows why telling pillar, obligatory act and sunnah apart matters.
• End of the week: practise standards 6.1.6 and 6.1.7.

Week 4: the Qur'an and tafsir

• 6.1.1: tajwid rules (articulation points and attributes of letters, noon sakinah, tanween and meem sakinah, the kinds of madd and the length of each), the difference between clear and hidden recitation errors, Qur'anic orthography and stop signs, and revising what you have memorised of al-Mufassal.
• 6.1.2: the types of tafsir and the methods of exegetes, the sciences of the Qur'an (Makki and Madani, muhkam and mutashabih, general and specific, absolute and restricted, abrogating and abrogated, mantuq and mafhum), and the conditions and etiquette of the mufassir.
• End of the week: practise standards 6.1.1 and 6.1.2.

Week 5: creed and sects

• 6.1.4: the types of tawhid, the kinds of kufr, shirk, hypocrisy and innovation, the Ahl al-Sunnah method on questions of faith, and classifying creedal deviations.
• 6.1.5: the concept of religions, sects and schools, the order in which sects arose in Islamic history and their foundations, the Shari'a approach to those who differ, and contemporary currents of thought.
• End of the week: practise standards 6.1.4 and 6.1.5.

Week 6: usul al-fiqh and hadith

• First half: 6.1.12 the difference between fiqh, its usul and its maxims, agreed and disputed evidences, enabling and obligation rulings, conflict and preference between evidences, ijtihad and taqlid, the five major legal maxims and some minor ones, and the objectives of the Shari'a.
• Second half: 6.1.3 the status of the Sunnah, classifying hadith by transmission, attribution and acceptance, the recording of the Sunnah and its sources, the Sira and Shama'il, and memorising the required forty hadiths. The guide's example on completing Ibn 'Abbas's "Young man" hadith shows that questions test memorisation down to the exact wording.
• End of the week: practise standards 6.1.12 and 6.1.3, then your first timed full mock exam in two hours with no phone. Compare its result with the week-1 diagnosis domain by domain.

Week 7: Islamic culture and teaching the Shari'a sciences

• First half: 6.1.13 the concept, characteristics and sources of Islamic culture, globalisation, and Islam's view of the universe, humankind and the family; 6.1.14 taking pride in Shari'a knowledge and distinguishing the fixed principles of religion from matters of ijtihad and disagreement; 6.1.15 the place of morals and the rights of parents, relatives and neighbours.
• Second half: 6.1.16 modern approaches to teaching the Shari'a sciences (teaching strategies, active learning, learning difficulties, assessment), and 6.1.17 the foundations of teaching the Qur'an, the Prophet's teaching methods, and planning the teaching steps of each branch.
• End of the week: a second full mock exam, then review its mistakes.

Week 8: review

• Go back to the weakest domains in your two mock exams. If fiqh is among them, keep the most time for it, since it is 46% of the test.
• Two days before the test: a third full mock exam, then a light review. Do not start a new topic on the last day.
• Test day: check the ID you need and what is allowed, sleep early, and arrive early.

If you have less time

If fewer than eight weeks remain, start with the diagnosis and then compress the plan in this order: transactions, family and criminal law first (21%), then the fiqh of worship and the Qur'an and tafsir (16% each), then creed, then the rest. Keep the last three days for two full mock exams and a review of their mistakes.

This plan is our suggestion for organising your time and does not guarantee any score, and a mock exam result is an estimate of readiness, not an official result. Start in unit practice with transactions, family and criminal law (21% of the questions), and leave the full mock exam for the end of the plan.