Psychology License Test Content: 6 Domains, 20 Standards, Weights

Last checked: 10 November 2026. The sources are ETEC's candidate guide for the Psychology professional license test (1441 AH/2020, trial edition) and the Psychology 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 Psychology subject test is multiple choice with four options, covering 20 standards in six domains. The largest domain is Applied psychology at 25.4%, then Psychological measurement and research methods at 22.6%, and the largest single standard is educational psychology (9.4%). The ETEC 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 13). Weights are shares of the standards content; the guide does not turn them into question counts.

What each domain tests

• General psychology (12%): what psychology is, its aims and branches, its origins and link to philosophy, the major schools and their theorists, scientific versus common-sense explanations, and the difficulties of studying behaviour and psychology's links with other sciences.
• Foundations and determinants of personality and behaviour (18.7%): laws, stages, theories and research methods of development; attention, perception, memory, information processing and artificial intelligence; the nervous system, neurotransmitters and endocrine glands.
• Personality and social psychology (13.3%): personality theories, determinants and measurement; attitudes, public opinion, values, socialisation and the internet's effects; group dynamics, leadership, prejudice and tolerance.
• Applied psychology (25.4%): clinical psychology and diagnosis; counselling, psychotherapy and their ethics; industrial-organisational psychology and vocational guidance; educational psychology (learning theories, objectives, assessment, motivation, individual differences); and criminal psychology.
• Psychological measurement and research methods (22.6%): levels of measurement, validity, reliability, norms and test construction; intelligence and ability scales and psychological profiles; scales of attitudes, motives and emotions; descriptive and inferential statistics and research designs.
• Teaching methods in psychology (8%): choosing a suitable method, catering for individual differences, a climate for motivation and creativity, lesson planning and learner-centred strategies.

What the questions look like

The guide gives sample questions with explained answers, such as one on the theorist behind the hierarchy of needs, one matching brain areas to their lobes, one on the founder of rational emotive therapy, and an applied one on teaching fifth-graders in line with Piaget's stages. It also has practice questions with an answer key. It notes that the samples do not cover every part of the test or show how 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 20 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. At least half are classroom or counselling situations asking for the best action or explanation.