Teacher Certification ICTS - Illinois Certification Testing System Exam Study Guide


All those who are seeking certification as educators, school staff and administrator need to take the Illinois certification testing system or the ICTS. This can allow you earn certification to work as a professional in public schools in Illinois.

Format for ICTS - Illinois Certification Testing System Exam


The Illinois certification testing system consists of a number of tests. All the tests are criterion referenced and objective based. The types of ICTS exams are as follow:

  • Basic skills- This tests the skills of the candidate in reading, language arts, mathematics and writing and consists of 125 multiple choice questions and writing answer.
  • Assessment of Professional Teaching (APT) this section measures the candidates academic knowledge and skills. This test has 120 multiple choice questions and two written answer type questions.
  • Content area- This section has 125 multiple choice questions with exceptions of special education general curriculum assessment with 65 multiple-choice questions and the foreign language content area assessments.
  • Foreign language content area - There are 100 multiple-choice items along with two written answers on French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Russian and Spanish. There are seven written answer topics on the assessments for Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
  • Learning behavior specialist II (LBSII) This test has six written answer topics,
  • Language proficiency test for the transitional bilingual certificate - There are two tests one is the English language proficiency (ELP) assessment and the other is target language proficiency (TLP) - Spanish assessment. Both have 55 multiple-choice questions and two written answer topics.

Study Guide and Preparation for ICTS - Illinois Certification Testing System Exam


ICTS - Illinois Certification Testing System Exam Study Guide

While you are preparing for the ICTS exam you are to make sure that you are covering each and every aspect of the topic. Also the preparation that began a suitable time before the examination is going to help a lot. For reference you can use a good ICTS study guide that will help you prepare for the exam in a better manner.




ICTS Study Guide




How to Prepare for Multiple Choice Questions


Tips and tricks that can help you prepare for multiple choice questions and increase your mark. Prepared by professionals these tricks help you excel in Illinois Certification Testing System Exam multiple choice exam.

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ICTS Multiple Choice Strategies Guide

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