Choosing materials

What the study options cost, what they cover, and where each one stops.

Study materials compared, and what each one is actually forFive kinds of material exist: the free state documents, books, question banks, taught courses and essay marking. The state documents are definitive an…
Prep courses, and the word that means two different thingsCourses split into live tuition, recorded video and self-paced online. None of them is a Florida-approved teacher preparation program, and that word d…
Question banks, and the four things that separate a good oneJudge a bank on four things: whether it holds real reading passages, whether it weights to 30, 30 and 35 questions, whether it runs full-length timed …
Free versus paid preparationFree material for this test is better than for most, because the syllabus is part of Rule 6A-4.0021 and published in full. Paid material buys three th…
The cheapest way through, in orderUSD 0, if you hold a qualifying SAT, ACT, GRE or CLT score, because Rule 6A-4.0021(12) accepts those in place of subtests. If not, the floor is USD 13…
General Knowledge versus the subject area examinationsThey're separate requirements, not alternatives. The General Knowledge Test (082) checks the basic skills any Florida teacher needs: an essay, English…
FTCE General Knowledge versus Praxis CoreThey're different states' answers to the same question. Florida requires the FTCE General Knowledge Test, and Rule 6A-4.0021(12) lists exactly which o…
Sitting the test versus using the SAT score you already haveIf you hold SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing at 560 and Mathematics at 540 from an administration on or after 1 March 2016, use the score. Rule …
One subtest at a time versus all four: what it costsThere's no money in this decision. A single subtest is USD 32.50 and the full battery is USD 130, exactly four times it. What splitting costs you is m…
Self-study versus a taught courseSelf-study is a strong default here, because Section 82 of the Twenty-Eighth Edition is the syllabus, it's part of Rule 6A-4.0021, and it's free. A ta…
Essay feedback: what it's worth, and where to get itWe teach the essay subtest in a chapter of its own and we do not mark essays. Some competitors do, and on the subtest with the lowest published first-…
Paying monthly versus paying onceDivide the one-off price by the monthly price and you get the month where they cross. Then ask honestly how long your plan will run, because a 30-day …
The total cost of passing, with the working shownUSD 130 buys all four subtests at USD 32.50 each. A retake is a fresh USD 32.50 and 37.2% of candidates need at least one, so the realistic figure for…
What a good practice question looks likeA good item maps to a named skill in Section 82, gives every wrong option a specific misconception behind it, can be read and answered inside the subt…
What we cover, and what we don'tUSD 79 buys 12 months, 950 questions, 60 reading passages, 78 lesson blocks, 124 learn checks and 5 mock forms of 95 questions. It does not mark essay…