ExCET/TExES RESOURCES

TExES tests are required for teacher certification in Texas. These tests are also difficult. How can you make it less difficult? See what it's like now. Get used to it now. Practice it now. Attend as many TExES review sessions as possible.

TExES is not only difficult. But you might have to get permission to take the test. Find out, as early as possible, what you need to do to get this permission. Here are some useful links:

 Test Tips: Click here for some advice based on one test-taker's experience (about 2000).

State Board of Education Links Once contained extensive list of competencies that serve as the basis for the test ("what teachers should know"). Maybe they're still there.

Texas Education Agency

TExES TEST site