Your State’s Tests
Not Every State Uses
the Same Tests. At All.
Roughly half the country uses the national series; the rest run their own, with their own codes, their own cut scores and their own rules about how many times you may sit one.
Each series here is built to its own published framework.
Which tests you need is your state education agency’s decision and it changes. Their certification page is the authority, not this one.
The problem
The State Series Are Not Variants.
They Are Different Tests.
Every product in this category writes one pedagogy file and cuts a state package out of it.
The test your state gives was written by your state, to its own framework, with its own scoring.
A national pedagogy test and a state pedagogy test overlap on what learning is and diverge almost everywhere else — the question counts differ, the constructed-response formats differ, the scoring scales differ, and the state’s own education code turns up in the questions. Texas asks about the Texas Education Code on its pedagogy test. Florida asks about Florida statutes on its professional education test. New York asks about its own regulations. None of that is inferable from a national file, and a package that says the rules “vary by state” is a way of not answering the question.
Which tests, which codes
Your certificate area maps to specific test codes in your state’s series, and getting that mapping wrong costs a fee and a testing window. The course you get is the one for the code you are actually registered for.
Which cut score
Scaled scores and passing marks are set by the state, and a percentage on a practice test does not translate into one. Readiness here is reported as a band against the cut your state actually uses.
How many attempts you get
Some states cap them. Texas allows five attempts per test under its education code, and a candidate who burns four without changing anything about how they study is in real trouble on the fifth. Others have no limit. Knowing which you are in changes how you should use the time.
And what moving states costs you
Nothing, here. The pedagogy, the subject knowledge and the reading science are the same body of material; what changes is the frame around it. Your profile re-composes onto the new series and you study the delta, not the whole thing again.
Named, not counted
Which Series Are Covered
Every prep company in this category advertises “all 50 states”.
We are going to name ours instead, and we are not going to name one before it is real.
No series is live yet, because the product has not launched.
That is a real answer rather than a placeholder. AccelaStudy® AI Educators opens in June 2027, and the series covered at launch will be listed on this page by name — each one appearing when its cluster has been built from that program’s published frameworks and the state’s own requirements, and has passed the check that refuses to ship a half-built one.
- We will name the series. We will not publish a number, and we will not say “every state” before it is true.
- A series missing from the list is one we have not finished, and we would rather you read that here than discover it three days before your test.
- The pedagogy, the subject knowledge and the reading science are the same body of material behind every series — that is what the free course and the paid course teach first, and it is why adding a series is a frame rather than a rewrite.
- Join the waitlist and you will be told which series opened, by name, on the day they do.
Published shapes
What Some of These Series Actually Look Like
Stated because a candidate deciding how to study deserves the real numbers, and because they differ far more than most people expect.
This is not the coverage list — that is the section above, and it names series.
| Series | Shape, as published |
|---|---|
| Texas | TExES — scaled 100–300 with 240 to pass and five attempts allowed per test. Core Subjects EC–6 is five separately scored subtests in one sitting; the pedagogy test runs 100 questions in 4 hours 45; the Science of Teaching Reading runs 90 selected-response plus one constructed response. Plus the ESL and bilingual supplementals, special education, and the 7–12 content tests. |
| California | CBEST is 50 reading and 50 mathematics questions plus two essays in a single four-hour session, scored as a total. CSET Multiple Subjects is three subtests with constructed responses. The state’s standalone reading assessment was retired in 2025 in favor of a literacy performance assessment or a foundations-of-reading test. |
| Florida | FTCE General Knowledge is four separately scored parts — English language skills 40 questions in 40 minutes, reading 40 in 55, mathematics 40 in 100, and a 50-minute essay. Professional Education runs about 100 questions in 2 hours 30. Elementary K–6 is four subtests. |
| New York | NYSTCE Educating All Students runs 40 selected-response questions plus three constructed responses in 2 hours 15, alongside the Content Specialty Tests and the School Building Leader assessment. |
| Massachusetts | MTEL Communication and Literacy Skills runs 77 multiple-choice questions, seven sentence corrections and two open responses in four hours, alongside the subject tests. |
| Georgia | GACE® Program Admission mirrors the national basic-skills shape; the content assessments follow the state’s frameworks; and Fundamentals of the Science of Reading runs 60 selected-response questions. |
| The reading tests | Foundations of Reading runs 100 selected-response questions plus two open responses in four hours, passing at 240 — used by Massachusetts and a dozen-plus other states. See the reading page. |
From each program’s published frameworks and each agency’s candidate information, as of August 2026. The other series — ILTS, OAE, MTTC, AEPA and NES, WEST, PECT, VCLA and the rest — each have their own published shape and are built the same way. All of it changes, agencies change vendors, and your state’s current certification page is the authority rather than this table.
Re-composing
You Move. The Profile Comes With You.
Teachers move, and the tests do not transfer — a candidate certified in New York who takes a job in Texas takes Texas’s tests.
What should transfer is what they know, and here it does.
Underneath every series is the same material: how children develop and learn, how instruction and assessment work, the federal law around special education and English learners, the science of reading, and your subject. A different state examines that material through a different frame — different counts, different formats, different scoring, a different education code. Re-composing means keeping what you proved and studying the frame, which is a few evenings rather than a few months.
- What carries: pedagogy, subject knowledge, reading science, special education and English-learner content — everything except the state-specific frame.
- What is new: the codes and cut scores, the constructed-response formats, and your new state’s own education code where its pedagogy test examines it.
- What it costs: nothing extra. It is the same subscription; you are not buying a second product because you moved.
- What we cannot do: tell you whether your existing certificate transfers. Reciprocity, coursework equivalency and any test waiver are your new state’s decision — ask them first, because the answer changes what you need to study.
About the State Series
Do you cover my state?
How do I know which tests my certificate area needs?
My state caps attempts. Does that change anything about how I should study?
Does the state’s own law show up on these tests?
Are these real test questions?
Study Your State’s Tests, Not a Generic File
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