United States
Hong KongWhat ID do you need for the FTCE?
Government-issued photo identification, in the name you registered under. The exact list of acceptable documents is published by the testing program on the official FTCE/FELE registration site, it is the vendor's to change, and we do not hold it. Read the current list there before your appointment rather than anywhere else.
We are going to be unhelpful in a specific way on this page, and it is deliberate.
Why we will not print a list
The documents a Pearson test center accepts are set by the testing program and published on its own site. That page is not something we hold on disk, and the site blocks automated access, so we have not read the current version of it. Copying a list from another prep site would give you a figure with no source behind it.
Identification rules also change more often than anything else about an examination, and they are the one rule where being wrong ends your day at the door. So: read the official list, close to your date.
The shape of the requirement
- Type
- Government-issued photo identification
- Name
- Has to match your registration exactly
- Where the list lives
- The official FTCE/FELE registration site
- Who sets it
- The testing program, not FLDOE's rule
- When to check
- At registration and again in the week before
The name match is the part that catches people rather than the document itself. If you have married, divorced or changed your name since your ID was issued, sort that out at registration and not at the counter.
What is worth doing instead of guessing
- Open the registration site and read its identification page when you book, not the night before
- Check the name on your ID against the name you typed into the registration form, character by character
- Check the same page again in the week of your appointment, because it is the vendor's page and it can change
None of that is interesting advice. It is the advice that keeps a USD 32.50 registration from being wasted at the door, and a turned-away candidate still faces the thirty-day arithmetic on rebooking.
What we can tell you about the day
The test is delivered at a Pearson test center, in person. If you have registered for all four subtests in one appointment you are there for 245 minutes of testing plus a scheduled 15-minute break, so plan the day around a long morning rather than a quick errand.
Everything beyond that, from lockers to what you may carry in, is the center's own policy and we would be inventing it.
Common questions
What ID do you need for the FTCE?
Government-issued photo identification in the name you registered under. The precise list of acceptable documents is published by the testing program on the official FTCE/FELE registration site, and that list is what governs on the day.
Why does this page not list the accepted documents?
Because we do not hold the document that carries them. The list is the testing program's, published on a site we cannot read automatically, and copying it from another prep site would mean printing something unsourced about a rule that ends your day if it is wrong.
Does the name on my ID have to match my registration?
Yes, and it is the most common problem. Check the name you typed on the registration form against the name printed on your identification when you book, rather than discovering a mismatch at the test center counter.
What happens if I am turned away?
You lose the appointment and the USD 32.50 registration behind it. A retake wait of thirty days applies only to a failed examination, but you still have to rebook, and appointment availability is not something we can predict for you.
Where is the test delivered?
At a Pearson test center, in person. You register through the FTCE/FELE testing site and then book an open appointment, and you have one year from registering to do that.