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What the Praxis 5331 actually is

These are the numbers ETS publishes. Every commercial prep site restates them, and several round the testing time to two and a half hours, which is close enough to plan by and far enough off to matter when you are pacing a real form.

Questions

132

Selected-response items on a full form. No essays, no oral section.

Testing time

150 min

One block. Commercial prep sites round this to 2.5 hours.

Per question

68 sec

150 minutes divided by 132 questions, on average.

Categories

3

44 questions each, one third of the exam apiece.

The three content categories

1. Foundations and Professional Practice

   44 questions/33 1/3%

   Typical development, anatomy and physiology, the nature of each disorder, research design, ethics, and the laws that govern practice. Mostly recall and recognition.

2. Screening, Assessment, Evaluation, and Diagnosis

   44 questions/33 1/3%

   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.

3. Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation of Treatment

   44 questions/33 1/3%

   Selecting a target, picking an approach, sequencing it, measuring whether it worked, and deciding what to change when it did not.

A question bank is not a timed form

Almost all free Praxis practice online, including the 10 questions below, is bank practice. You answer one question, read the rationale, and move on when you are ready. That is the right way to learn content, and it is not what test day feels like.

A form gives you 132 questions and 150 minutes in one block. That averages about 68 seconds a question, including the ones where you read the stem twice and the ones where you are choosing between two options that both look defensible. You cannot look anything up. You cannot stop after a hard item to settle down. Most students find the content easier than the clock the first time they sit a full form, and the fix is not more content: it is having sat one before.

So use the questions below to find out what you know. Then sit at least one full timed form before test day, whoever you sit it with. SLP Study Hub builds one at 132 questions in 150 minutes with the same three-category split as a real form, and reports your result by Big Nine area rather than as a single number.

What to do with the ones you missed

Ten questions is enough to notice a pattern and not enough to trust one. If two of the three you missed were assessment questions, that is a hint, not a finding. The free placement quiz is 12 questions, about 6 to 7 minutes and ranks all nine areas from strongest to weakest, which is a real starting point.

• Take the free placement quiz

  12 questions, about 6 to 7 minutes, every Big Nine area covered. Create a free account to get started.

• Sit a full timed exam

  132 questions in 150 minutes, scored by area. The timed exam needs a free account, which takes an email and a password.

• Read the Praxis 5331 study guide

  What the exam covers by category, and every topic outline grouped underneath it.

• Browse the topic outlines

  Grouped by Big Nine area, so you can go straight to the one that just cost you two questions.

Common questions

How many questions are on the Praxis 5331?

132 selected-response questions in 150 minutes, which works out to about 68 seconds a question. They are split across three content categories of 44 questions each, and each category is worth one third of the exam.

Is this practice test really free?

The first question and its full rationale are free on this page. A free account includes the placement quiz, study previews and 5 practice questions a day. Explore these before choosing full library access.

How is a timed form different from a question bank?

A bank lets you stop, look something up, and answer the next one when you are ready. A form gives you one block of time for every question at once, so pacing and stamina are being tested alongside content. Most students find the content easier than the clock the first time they sit a full form, which is why it is worth doing at least one before test day.

What score do I need to pass?

ASHA requires a 162 on the 100 to 200 scale for the Certificate of Clinical Competence. State licensure boards set their own cut scores, so check the board for the state you plan to work in as well.

Are these real Praxis questions?

No. Every question here is original, written for SLP Study Hub against the publicly available ETS test blueprint. Reproducing an ETS question would be a copyright problem and would not help you anyway, since the form you sit will be different.