Helping Candidates Prepare

The following resources provide information and worksheets to help faculty assess candidates' readiness to test and to assist in guiding their test preparation.

• New York State Education Department

Links to the NYSED website, which describes the requirements for educator certification in New York State.

• Guiding Candidate Test Preparation

Provides faculty with some strategies for assisting candidates in preparing to take or retake a NYSTCE test.

• Test Preparation Worksheet

Enables candidates and faculty to assess candidate readiness for testing.

• Preparation/Study Guides

Links to the Preparation/Study Guides page that displays test preparation materials for each NYSTCE test. Each preparation/study guide contains information about the test design, sample multiple-choice questions and explanations of correct response, sample written assignments, and sample strong responses to the written assignments.

• Practice Tests

Links to the Practice Tests page where candidates may purchase online practice tests for some NYSTCE tests. These practice tests are designed to simulate the experience of taking a full-length NYSTCE test.

Institutions: Order practice test vouchers for your candidates

• CBT Tutorials

Links to the Computer-Based Testing Tutorials page where candidates will get a sense of what they will see when they begin their test at a Pearson Professional Center.

• Preparation Webinar

Providing preparation strategies for Multi-Subject: Teachers of Early Childhood (Birth-Grade 2): Mathematics 246 test