Physics Teacher License Test Registration: Fees, Steps and Results

Last verified: 30 October 2026. Fees and dates can change, so check everything on ETEC's teachers' professional license page before you pay. This guide is independent: it is not affiliated with ETEC, Qiyas (the National Center for Assessment), the Ministry of Education or any government body. It cannot register for you.

In short: you register for the physics subject test from your profile on the e-services portal and pay SAR 100. The license also needs the General Educational Test, which has its own SAR 100 fee, and then SAR 100 when the license is issued.

Fees

The test fee comes from the FAQ on ETEC's page, and the issue or upgrade fee from Article 9 of the Professional License Regulations for Educational Jobs. So someone who passes both tests on the first attempt pays SAR 300 in total to get the license issued.

Registration steps

1. Go to ETEC's e-services portal and open your "beneficiary profile", or create an account if you do not have one.
2. Register for the subject test during the announced registration window and choose Physics. According to ETEC's documents physics has a single test, so there is no Level 1 and Level 2 as in mathematics and science. We have not tried the portal ourselves because it needs a login, so the subject may be labelled differently there.
3. Pay the test fee (SAR 100) from your profile on the portal. After paying you can change or delete the booking within the deadline below.
4. Sit the test on your date with a valid ID (see "Test day" below).
5. Check your result in your profile once it is announced.

ETEC has published a visual registration guide for the subject-specific license tests (2023) that explains the steps with pictures.

Paper or computer?

ETEC says the subject test may be on paper or on computer depending on the subject, and that the type shows in your profile. Check yours in your profile after you register. It decides your deadline for changing the booking:

Test day

• Language: Arabic.
• Calculator: not allowed, so practise calculating on paper.
• Accepted ID: national ID for Saudis, iqama for non-Saudis, a passport, or a Saudi driving licence.
• Advice from ETEC's physics guide: finish your revision a day or two before the test, rest, eat a light meal before going in, and make sure you bring the required documents.

Results and levels

Scoring is criterion-referenced and wrong answers carry no penalty. The Regulations (Article 4) set the levels at these scores:

The level uses the lower of the subject test and the General Educational Test, provided you meet the qualification and years-of-experience conditions in the table of Article 4. If you score 85 in physics and 55 in the General Educational Test, your counted score is 55.

Issuing the license after you pass

The license goes through three stages set out in the Regulations (Article 5): registering for the tests through the electronic system, sitting both tests and getting the results, then the license issue request: you submit the request at the level whose conditions you fully meet (score, qualification and years of experience) and pay SAR 100, and ETEC issues it. The request is made on the "Professional Licenses Platform" that ETEC's page links to.

The license is not issued automatically when your result appears, so do not delay the request: if you get it issued within one calendar year of passing your latest test it is valid for five years from the issue date, and if you wait longer than a year the five years count from the end of that year (Article 6).

Validity

• Test result: valid for five years from the date it is announced.
• License: valid for five years, and you can apply to renew it in its final year (Articles 6 and 7).

Before you pay the SAR 100 test fee, take the free questions and see where you stand in mechanics and electricity (44% together) and the other domains. Then read what the test covers and its weights.