Sociology License Test Content: 5 Domains, 13 Standards, Weights

Last checked: 10 November 2026. The sources are ETEC's candidate guide for the Sociology professional license test (1441 AH/2020, trial edition) and the Sociology 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 Sociology subject test is multiple choice with four options, covering 13 standards in five domains. The largest domain is Applied sociology at 29.1%, then Foundations and theories of sociology at 24.1%, and the largest single standards are social change and development and anthropology and culture (10.6% each). 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 10). Weights are shares of the standards content; the guide does not turn them into question counts.

What each domain tests

• Foundations and theories of sociology (24.1%): what sociology is, its aims and fields, the English equivalents of its terms, classical and contemporary theories and how to judge them, and the pioneers, the stages of social thought and Ibn Khaldun's contribution.
• Social research skills (18.8%): features of scientific knowledge, research methods and data collection tools, the research plan, levels of measurement, choosing a statistical test, and interpreting findings and presenting them in charts.
• Applied sociology (29.1%): social change and development, their theories and obstacles, and action research; social structure and organisation, bureaucracy and managing institutions; deviance, theories of crime and social control; and the family, socialisation, population and migration.
• Anthropology (20%): the branches and concepts of anthropology, culture with its traits and components, fieldwork methods, cultural blending, and the local community, settlement patterns and the prevailing systems and their problems.
• Teaching methods and curriculum (8%): constructivism, planning with measurable objectives, catering for learners' needs, using technology and sociometry, and teaching strategies that build thinking skills.

What the questions look like

The guide gives sample questions with explained answers, such as one on which field studies student absence, one on the approach that analyses society at the long-range level, one on when open interviews are used, one on the highest level of measurement, and one on the top level of Bloom's original taxonomy. 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 13 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 fieldwork, community or classroom situations asking for the best step or explanation.