Educational Supervision License Test Content: 4 Domains, 15 Standards

Last checked: 10 November 2026. The sources are ETEC's candidate guide for the Educational Supervision professional license test (1441 AH/2020, trial edition) and the Educational Supervision 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 Educational Supervision subject test is multiple choice with four options, covering 15 standards in four domains. The largest domain is Leadership and Supervision at 41.3%, then Supporting Teaching and Learning at 34.6%, Professional Development at 12.1% and Values, Professional Ethics and Communication Skills at 12%. The guide's table spreads 75 questions across the standards, the largest being using supervisory methods (9 questions). Each question targets one indicator of one standard, and the questions do not have to cover every indicator.

Domains, standards and weights

Weights and question counts come from the candidate guide (pp. 6 and 7); the detailed indicators for each standard are in the standards document (pp. 8 to 12). The guide is a trial edition, so the real count may differ; ETEC's page says subject tests have 60 to 88 questions depending on the subject. The guide's table places the professional ethics standard (6.25.13) in the Supporting Teaching and Learning domain.

What each domain tests

• Leadership and Supervision (41.3%): strategic and operational plans and environmental analysis, leadership theories, styles and decision-making, planning change and limiting resistance, supervisory methods (visit, conference, bulletin, directed reading, workshop, demonstration lesson), supervisory models (clinical, developmental, differentiated) with microteaching and the Johari window, and teacher appraisal and rating errors.
• Professional Development (12.1%): analysing supervisory outputs and impact measures, using feedback, initiatives built on a sound method, professional learning communities, distance learning and future-foresight skills.
• Supporting Teaching and Learning (34.6%): training needs, nominating teachers and evaluating programmes, portfolios, learning theories and strategies, assessment purposes and tools, curriculum evaluation and content analysis, action research and evaluating school projects, technology and e-supervision, and professional ethics.
• Values, Professional Ethics and Communication Skills (12%): types of community partnership and how to organise and sustain them, exchanging expertise with institutions, the elements and forms of communication, building teams and trust, and positive feedback.

What the questions look like

The guide gives eight sample questions linked to their standards, such as one on the type of partnership when scouts serve pilgrims, one on synchronous e-learning, one on the KWL strategy, one on transformational leadership and one on the focus group as a data-collection tool. It also has fifteen practice questions, and notes that the samples do not cover every part of the test or show how easy or 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 15 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. Most are situations from visits, conferences, training programmes and partnerships asking for the best decision or method.