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OAE Elementary Education Practice Test

Unofficial practice for both subtests of Ohio's OAE Elementary Education assessment, 018 and 019.

Which verb correctly completes the sentence "The coach, as well as her players, ___ ready for the game"?

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Subtest I: Reading and English language arts 20

  • A fifth grader previews a chapter's headings, turns them into questions, reads, says the answers from memory and then goes back over her notes. Which study method is she using? Wikipedia, "SQ3R". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0003
  • A short tale in which animals talk and act like people, and which ends by stating a moral, belongs to which genre? Wikipedia, "Fable". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0004
  • A student decodes "unbreakable" by spotting un-, break and -able. What are these smallest meaningful parts of a word called? Wikipedia, "Morpheme". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0002
  • A student greets a friend with "Hey, what's up?" but opens a letter to the principal with "Dear Principal Lee". Which term names a variety of language chosen to fit the situation? Wikipedia, "Register (sociolinguistics)". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0005
  • A student meets the sentence "The arid desert had not seen rain in years" and works out that "arid" means dry. Which strategy did the student use? Wikipedia, "Reading comprehension". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0003
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Subtest I: Reading and English language arts, continued

  • A student reading a book about volcanoes wants the meaning of "magma". Which text feature lists the book's key terms in alphabetical order with their definitions? Wikipedia, "Glossary". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0004
  • A teacher hands out a passage with every seventh word blanked out and asks students to write in words that make sense. What is this kind of exercise called? Wikipedia, "Cloze test". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0003
  • A teacher says the sounds /m/, /a/, /p/ one at a time, and the children put them together and say "map". Which phonemic awareness task is this? Wikipedia, "Phonemic awareness". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0001
  • A third grader reads every word of a passage correctly but slowly and in a flat voice, with no phrasing. Which part of fluency is weakest besides rate? Wikipedia, "Fluency". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0002
  • A two-year-old says "Daddy go" and "more juice", leaving out the small grammatical words. What is this kind of early speech called? Wikipedia, "Telegraphic speech". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0001
  • After a story, a teacher asks, "Why do you think Maya hid the letter? The author does not tell us." Which kind of comprehension does the question call for? Wikipedia, "Reading comprehension". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0003
  • An advertisement says, "Everyone on your street already owns one. Don't be left out." Which persuasive technique is it using? Wikipedia, "Bandwagon effect". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0004
  • Clapping the syllables in "butterfly" and hearing that "shell" and "bell" rhyme are skills at a broader level than single phonemes. What is this awareness of words' sound structure called? Wikipedia, "Phonological awareness". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0001
  • "The classroom was a zoo." Which literary device does this sentence use? Wikipedia, "Metaphor". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0004
  • In the spoken word "street", which part is the rime? Wikipedia, "Syllable". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0001
  • In which approach to teaching reading do children first learn the sounds of individual letters and then blend those sounds to pronounce whole words? Wikipedia, "Synthetic phonics". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0002
  • The last sound in "cowboy" glides from one vowel position to another inside a single syllable. What is such a vowel sound called? Wikipedia, "Diphthong". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0002
  • Listing ideas and drawing a web of related details before a first draft is written belong to which stage of the writing process? Wikipedia, "Prewriting". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0005
  • "We went to the museum, it was closed." What is the error in this sentence? Wikipedia, "Comma splice". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0005
  • Which verb correctly completes the sentence "The coach, as well as her players, ___ ready for the game"? Purdue Online Writing Lab, "Making Subjects and Verbs Agree". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0005

Subtest I: Social studies 12

  • A class studying the Dust Bowl of the 1930s gathers sources. Which of these is a primary source? Wikipedia, "Primary source". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0007
  • A frost destroys much of the orange crop while shoppers want as many oranges as before. In a competitive market, what happens to the price of oranges? Wikipedia, "Supply and demand". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0006
  • A student says, "The library is two blocks north of the school." Which kind of location has the student given? Wikipedia, "Five themes of geography". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0008
  • A town uses its only vacant lot for a library and so gives up the swimming pool it could have built there. In economics, what is the pool? Wikipedia, "Opportunity cost". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0006
  • Farmers cut terraces into steep hillsides so they can grow rice. Which of the five themes of geography does this best illustrate? Wikipedia, "Five themes of geography". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0008
  • Hikers studying a topographic map see the contour lines bunched close together along one stretch of trail. What should they expect there? Wikipedia, "Contour line". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0008
  • The historical region of Mesopotamia, roughly the territory of modern Iraq, lay within the system of which two rivers? Wikipedia, "Mesopotamia". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0007
  • News of plentiful factory jobs draws thousands of farm families into a growing city. In the study of migration, what are the jobs? Wikipedia, "Human migration". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0008
  • Under the Constitution, which branch of the federal government sets the number of justices who sit on the Supreme Court? Wikipedia, "Separation of powers under the United States Constitution". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0006
  • Under the U.S. Constitution, which power is given to Congress and denied to the states? Wikipedia, "Article One of the United States Constitution". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0006
  • Which 1787 law created the Northwest Territory and barred slavery there? Wikipedia, "Northwest Ordinance". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0007
  • Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865 after the Civil War, abolished slavery? Wikipedia, "Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest I (018) framework, competency 0007

Subtest II: Mathematics 16

  • A capital letter H is printed in plain block type. How many lines of symmetry does it have? OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) assessment framework, Domain I Mathematics, competency 0004 (geometry and measurement). The answer is worked out in the explanation
  • A class measures a bean plant's height every Monday for eight weeks. Which display best shows how the height changed over time? Wikipedia, "Line chart". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) framework, competency 0002
  • A fish tank is 50 cm long, 30 cm wide and 20 cm deep. How many liters of water does it hold when full? OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) assessment framework, Domain I Mathematics, competency 0004 (geometry and measurement). The answer is worked out in the explanation
  • A function machine turns 2 into 7, 5 into 16 and 10 into 31. What does it give for an input of 4? OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) assessment framework, Domain I Mathematics, competency 0003 (patterns, algebra, and functions). The answer is worked out in the explanation
  • A kayak rental costs a flat $12 plus $7 for every half hour on the water. Which expression gives the cost of n half hours? OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) assessment framework, Domain I Mathematics, competency 0002 (mathematical reasoning and problem solving, communication and representation, and data analysis). The answer is worked out in the explanation
  • A lighthouse lamp flashes every 14 seconds and a harbor buoy every 21 seconds. Both flash at the stroke of midnight. How many seconds pass before they flash at the same moment again? OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) assessment framework, Domain I Mathematics, competency 0001 (numeration, number sense, and mathematical operations). The answer is worked out in the explanation
  • A number is tripled and then decreased by 8. The result equals the number plus 12. What is the number? OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) assessment framework, Domain I Mathematics, competency 0003 (patterns, algebra, and functions). The answer is worked out in the explanation
  • A pitcher holds 2.4 liters of juice. How many 300-milliliter glasses can be filled from it? OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) assessment framework, Domain I Mathematics, competency 0004 (geometry and measurement). The answer is worked out in the explanation
  • A shelf can hold at most 40 pounds. A 4-pound globe already sits on it, and each dictionary weighs 6 pounds. What is the greatest number of dictionaries the shelf can take? OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) assessment framework, Domain I Mathematics, competency 0003 (patterns, algebra, and functions). The answer is worked out in the explanation
  • A square garden plot is fenced with exactly 36 feet of fencing. What is the area of the plot? OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) assessment framework, Domain I Mathematics, competency 0004 (geometry and measurement). The answer is worked out in the explanation
  • A student claims, "All prime numbers are odd." Which number is a counterexample? OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) assessment framework, Domain I Mathematics, competency 0002 (mathematical reasoning and problem solving, communication and representation, and data analysis). The answer is worked out in the explanation
  • A teacher writes each whole number from 1 to 20 on its own slip and draws one slip from a jar. What is the probability that the number is a multiple of 6? OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) assessment framework, Domain I Mathematics, competency 0001 (numeration, number sense, and mathematical operations). The answer is worked out in the explanation
  • Five campers share a rope 8 3/4 feet long equally. How much rope does each camper get? OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) assessment framework, Domain I Mathematics, competency 0001 (numeration, number sense, and mathematical operations). The answer is worked out in the explanation
  • Four seedlings are 2, 6, 9 and 15 centimeters tall. What is the median height? OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) assessment framework, Domain I Mathematics, competency 0002 (mathematical reasoning and problem solving, communication and representation, and data analysis). The answer is worked out in the explanation
  • Row 1 of a small theater has 12 seats, and every row behind it has 2 more seats than the row in front. Which row has 40 seats? OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) assessment framework, Domain I Mathematics, competency 0003 (patterns, algebra, and functions). The answer is worked out in the explanation
  • Seven of the 28 students in a class are absent. What percent of the class is present? OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) assessment framework, Domain I Mathematics, competency 0001 (numeration, number sense, and mathematical operations). The answer is worked out in the explanation

Subtest II: Science 12

  • A farmer cuts one potato into pieces, each with an "eye", and every piece grows into a plant. Why are the new plants genetically alike? Wikipedia, "Vegetative reproduction". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) framework, competency 0005
  • A sealed jar holding ice cubes is weighed. After the ice melts, the jar is weighed again. What does the law of conservation of mass predict? Wikipedia, "Conservation of mass". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) framework, competency 0007
  • A student runs her pendulum experiment five times under the same conditions and compares the results. What is this repeating of an experiment called, and what is it for? Wikipedia, "Replication (statistics)". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) framework, competency 0007
  • An old bicycle left out in the rain grows a flaky orange-brown coating on its steel frame. What kind of change made the coating? Wikipedia, "Rust". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) framework, competency 0006
  • In a forest, fungi and bacteria break down fallen leaves and dead animals and return nutrients to the soil. What role do they fill? Wikipedia, "Decomposer". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) framework, competency 0005
  • In a test of plant fertilizer, students keep one tray of seedlings that gets no fertilizer at all. What is the purpose of that tray? Wikipedia, "Scientific control". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) framework, competency 0007
  • In photosynthesis, a plant uses light energy to build sugar from which two raw materials? Wikipedia, "Photosynthesis". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) framework, competency 0005
  • Limestone that is buried deep and exposed to great heat and pressure becomes marble. To which class of rock does marble belong? Wikipedia, "Marble". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) framework, competency 0006
  • Movers slide a heavy crate up a ramp into a truck instead of lifting it straight up. Which simple machine are they using? Wikipedia, "Inclined plane". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) framework, competency 0006
  • What must happen for a lunar eclipse to occur? Wikipedia, "Lunar eclipse". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) framework, competency 0006
  • Which group of animals has an exoskeleton, a segmented body and paired jointed legs? Wikipedia, "Arthropod". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) framework, competency 0005
  • Which piece of classroom lab equipment is designed to measure the volume of a liquid? Wikipedia, "Graduated cylinder". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) framework, competency 0007

Subtest II: The arts, health and fitness 4

  • A physical education lesson for first graders practices gross locomotor skills. Which activity belongs in it? Wikipedia, "Gross motor skill". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) framework, competency 0008
  • In music, which term names the speed of the beat? Wikipedia, "Tempo". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) framework, competency 0008
  • In the visual arts, which element refers to how light or dark a color or tone is? Wikipedia, "Elements of art". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) framework, competency 0008
  • Which body system pumps blood to carry oxygen and nutrients to the cells? Wikipedia, "Circulatory system". Written to OAE Elementary Education Subtest II (019) framework, competency 0008

How this list was compiled: Our own questions, written to the assessment frameworks for Ohio Assessments for Educators fields 018 and 019, Elementary Education Subtests I and II, read 2026-10-12 on the program's site (https://www.oh.nesinc.com/CONTENT/STUDYGUIDE/OH_SG_OBJ_018.htm; test page https://www.oh.nesinc.com/TestView.aspx?f=HTML_FRAG/OH018_TestPage.html): each subtest has 75 multiple-choice questions in 90 minutes, passing score 220. Subtest I: Reading and English Language Arts (competencies 0001 to 0005, 62%) and Social Studies (0006 to 0008, 38%). Subtest II: Mathematics (0001 to 0004, 50%), Science (0005 to 0007, 38%) and The Arts, Health, and Fitness (0008, 12%). The bank holds 4 questions for each of the 16 competencies, 32 to a subtest. The 15 mathematics questions that are pure arithmetic name the competency alone and are worked in the explanation; every other fact was read on 2026-10-12 in the public page the question names: the named Wikipedia article or the Purdue Online Writing Lab. Licence: Questions, choices and explanations are original work of this site.

How it works

This free OAE Elementary Education practice test covers both subtests with 64 questions of our own, four on each of the 16 competencies. It is unofficial practice, not affiliated with the Ohio State Board of Education or Evaluation Systems, Pearson.

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What the two subtests cover

By the frameworks at oh.nesinc.com, read October 12, 2026, Subtest I (018) is Reading and English Language Arts 62% and Social Studies 38%. Subtest II (019) is Mathematics 50%, Science 38%, and the Arts, Health and Fitness 12%. Each subtest has 32 questions here: 20 and 12, then 16, 12 and 4.

Timing

Each real subtest allows 90 minutes of testing. The timed exam here asks all 64 questions in 77 minutes, the same 1.2 minutes a question.

Which endorsement needs it

The program's table of license types lists 018/019 for the Early Childhood Generalist (4–5) endorsement. For the Middle Childhood Generalist (4–6) endorsements it is the alternative to a Middle Grades content test.

Questions and answers

Is this OAE Elementary Education practice test free?

It is free and needs no account. All 64 questions are our own, from the two published frameworks. The arithmetic is worked in each explanation, and the other answers name a public page. Nothing comes from the real subtests.

How many questions are on OAE Elementary Education?

150 in all: 75 multiple-choice questions on Subtest I and 75 on Subtest II. The test page lists no reference materials.

What is the passing score for OAE 018 and 019?

220, on a scale of 100 to 300 built from the multiple-choice questions answered correctly. Both subtests must be passed for a license in this field in Ohio.

Can I take both OAE Elementary Education subtests in one day?

At a test center, yes: one or both subtests at one appointment, by the test page. With an online proctor you may take only one subtest in a session, and no breaks are allowed.

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