Yes. Full access is free during beta, including 1,000+ practice questions, timed exams, flashcards, custom quizzes, progress tracking, and the study outlines.

How long is the free diagnostic?

12 questions, about 6 minutes. It covers every Big Nine area at least once and shows which areas to work on first. You do not need an account to take it.

What score do I need to pass the Praxis 5331?

Most states and ASHA require a scaled score of 162 to qualify for the Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC-SLP). A few states set a slightly higher cutoff. Scaled scores range from 100 to 200.

How long should I study for the Praxis 5331?

Most students do well with 6 to 10 weeks of consistent prep: short daily blocks during the week and a longer weekend block for full or half-length practice exams. The diagnostic and study plan adapt to the timeline you have.

Are these real ETS questions?

No. Every question is original, written and reviewed by an SLP and modeled on the public 5331 Study Companion blueprint and one-best-answer selected-response style. None reproduce official ETS items.

What does each question include?

Each question includes a curated rationale for the correct answer, an explanation for every distractor, and reference sources for further review.

Is this aligned with Praxis 5331?

Yes. The platform uses the public ETS 5331 blueprint and test specs: a computer-delivered, 132-question, 150-minute selected-response exam. The bank centers on four-option, one-best-answer practice and includes select-all items for format familiarity.

How is this different from a static question bank?

It is built for short study blocks, weak-area targeting, and direct explanation review instead of passive rereading.

What if I already passed the Praxis?

It can still work as a refresher for CFs, but the main audience is students preparing for Praxis 5331.

How should I use this during grad school?

Start with the diagnostic, read the outline for your weakest area, use short weekday question sets there, revisit misses a few days later, and use timed exams for pacing.

How can I give feedback?

Use the in-app feedback form or email support with what helped your Praxis prep and what still needs work.

What does the Praxis 5331 actually cover?

Three content categories of 44 questions each: Foundations and Professional Practice; Screening, Assessment, Evaluation, and Diagnosis; and Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation of Treatment. Each one is worth a third of the exam, so no category can be skipped and none is worth twice the study time of another.

Which area should I study first?

The one where being weak costs you the most questions, which is your accuracy in an area multiplied by how much of the form that area takes up. Grinding an area you are already good at, or a small area you happen to dislike, is the common way to waste a week. The free diagnostic ranks all nine for you in about six minutes.

How long should I study for the Praxis 5331?

It depends on where you are starting, and the honest answer is that you cannot tell without measuring. Students who have just finished coursework in an area usually need less time in it than they expect, and more in the areas their program covered in a single week. Take a baseline first, then plan against it.

Are these study outlines free?

The opening section of every outline is free to read with no account. The rest of the outline and its key-term definitions open with a free account. The diagnostic and the practice test need no account at all.

Does ETS publish how many questions each of the nine areas gets?

No. ETS publishes the three content-category weights and a subarea outline, but not a per-area question count for the nine areas of practice. Any percentage you see attached to a single area, here or anywhere else, is somebody working backwards from the outline. Treat it as a planning aid, not an official figure.

SLP Praxis 5331 study guide

What the Praxis 5331 covers, and how to study for it

The exam is 132 questions in 150 minutes, split evenly across three content categories. This page lays out what sits in each category, links every free topic outline underneath the category it belongs to, and gives you an order to work in.

Questions: 132
Minutes: 150
Categories: 3
Topic outlines: 40

Start with the free diagnostic: 12 questions, about 6 minutes Or try 10 practice questions

The blueprint: three categories, equal weight

ETS publishes the split, and it is unusually clean: 44 questions in each of three categories, each worth one third of the exam. There is no category you can safely skip and none worth double the study time. What the categories differ in is the kind of thinking they ask for, which is the part worth planning around.

Foundations and Professional Practice
44questions
Typical development, anatomy and physiology, the nature of each disorder, research design, ethics, and the laws that govern practice. Mostly recall and recognition.
12 free outlines
Screening, Assessment, Evaluation, and Diagnosis
44questions
Choosing a screening or assessment tool, reading the scores it produces, ruling a diagnosis in or out, and knowing when a referral belongs to someone else.
15 free outlines
Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation of Treatment
44questions
Selecting a target, picking an approach, sequencing it, measuring whether it worked, and deciding what to change when it did not.
13 free outlines

The nine areas of practice, and how much each is worth

The three categories cut the exam one way. The nine areas of practice cut it the other way, and they are how you actually think about a weak spot: you are not bad at assessment, you are bad at voice. ETS does not publish a question count per area, only the subarea outline, so the figures below are our own estimates worked back from that outline. They are the numbers our study planner uses. They are not official, and you should not repeat them as if they were.

Receptive & Expressive Languageabout 26 questions20%
Speech Sound Productionabout 20 questions15%
Cognitive Communicationabout 16 questions12%
Voice, Resonance & Motor Speechabout 13 questions10%
Feeding & Swallowingabout 13 questions10%
Hearingabout 12 questions9%
Fluencyabout 11 questions8%
Social Communication / Pragmaticsabout 11 questions8%
AACabout 11 questions8%

Estimated from the published ETS subarea outline. Not an ETS figure.

How to build a plan you will actually follow

Most Praxis study plans fail in the same two ways: they are built before anything has been measured, and they spend the most time on whatever the student already likes. Five steps that avoid both.

01
Measure before you plan
Every plan that starts with "chapter one" ends with three areas you never opened. Sit a short diagnostic first so the plan is built against your actual gaps rather than the order a textbook happens to use.
02
Rank by weakness times weight
An area you are failing that carries four questions is worth less of your week than an area you are middling in that carries twenty. Multiply the two. That product, not your discomfort, is the order to work in.
03
Read the outline, then answer questions on it
Reading alone feels productive and does very little. Read one outline, then answer questions in that area the same day, then again a few days later. The second pass is where it sticks.
04
Sit at least one full timed form
132 questions in 150 minutes, in one block, before test day. Pacing is a separate skill from content, and it is the one nobody practises.
05
Spend the last week on misses, not on new material
In the final stretch, reread the rationales for the questions you got wrong instead of opening a topic you have never seen. New material this late mostly buys anxiety.

On a real form you get about 68 seconds a question, so practise at roughly that pace once the content is in place.

Where to start today

Take the free diagnostic
12 questions, about 6 minutes. It covers all nine areas and ranks them for you. No account needed.
Try the free practice test
10 questions with the full rationale on each, one per Big Nine area.
Browse the outlines by Big Nine area
The same 40 outlines, grouped by area instead of by category.

Common questions

What does the Praxis 5331 actually cover?: Three content categories of 44 questions each: Foundations and Professional Practice; Screening, Assessment, Evaluation, and Diagnosis; and Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation of Treatment. Each one is worth a third of the exam, so no category can be skipped and none is worth twice the study time of another.
Which area should I study first?: The one where being weak costs you the most questions, which is your accuracy in an area multiplied by how much of the form that area takes up. Grinding an area you are already good at, or a small area you happen to dislike, is the common way to waste a week. The free diagnostic ranks all nine for you in about six minutes.
How long should I study for the Praxis 5331?: It depends on where you are starting, and the honest answer is that you cannot tell without measuring. Students who have just finished coursework in an area usually need less time in it than they expect, and more in the areas their program covered in a single week. Take a baseline first, then plan against it.
Are these study outlines free?: The opening section of every outline is free to read with no account. The rest of the outline and its key-term definitions open with a free account. The diagnostic and the practice test need no account at all.
Does ETS publish how many questions each of the nine areas gets?: No. ETS publishes the three content-category weights and a subarea outline, but not a per-area question count for the nine areas of practice. Any percentage you see attached to a single area, here or anywhere else, is somebody working backwards from the outline. Treat it as a planning aid, not an official figure.

Disclaimer: Praxis is a registered trademark of Educational Testing Service (ETS). SLP Study Hub is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ETS or ASHA. The outlines and questions linked from this page are original educational content written for SLP Study Hub and aligned to the publicly available Praxis 5331 test blueprint.

The blueprint: three categories, equal weight

Foundations and Professional Practice

Screening, Assessment, Evaluation, and Diagnosis

Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation of Treatment

The nine areas of practice, and how much each is worth

How to build a plan you will actually follow

Measure before you plan

Rank by weakness times weight

Read the outline, then answer questions on it

Sit at least one full timed form

Spend the last week on misses, not on new material

Where to start today

Common questions