Unofficial practice for Oklahoma's OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment, field 085, with Oklahoma's own timelines beside the federal rules.
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A child's hearing loss comes from sound waves failing to travel well through the outer ear, eardrum or middle ear. Which type of hearing loss is this?Wikipedia, Conductive hearing loss (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0001 (human development and factors that influence learning).
A student cannot yet button his coat alone but can when an adult guides his hands. What did Vygotsky call the range between the two?Wikipedia, Zone of proximal development (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0001 (human development and factors that influence learning).
A student with epilepsy has limited alertness in class that hurts her schoolwork. Under which IDEA category would her eligibility most likely be considered?Code of Federal Regulations, 34 CFR 300.8(c)(9) (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0002 (categories and the continuum of disabilities).
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Development and learning across the continuum, continued
A toddler looks at a toy, then at her mother, then back at the toy, to share her interest in it. What is this early social skill called?Wikipedia, Joint attention (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0001 (human development and factors that influence learning).
Dressing, handling money and following safety rules without help are examples of which kind of skill?Wikipedia, Adaptive behavior (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0001 (human development and factors that influence learning).
IDEA's traumatic brain injury category covers an acquired injury caused by an external physical force. Which injury does the definition leave out?Code of Federal Regulations, 34 CFR 300.8(c)(12) (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0002 (categories and the continuum of disabilities).
In an Oklahoma district that elects the Developmental Delays category, for which ages is it a student's primary disability category?Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Policies and Procedures 2026 (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0002 (categories and the continuum of disabilities).
Under Oklahoma's traditional discrepancy model for a specific learning disability, how large is a severe discrepancy between ability and achievement?Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Policies and Procedures 2026 (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0002 (categories and the continuum of disabilities).
Under the IDEA definition of emotional disturbance, how must the listed characteristics be shown?Code of Federal Regulations, 34 CFR 300.8(c)(4) (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0002 (categories and the continuum of disabilities).
What is SoonerStart, and which children does it serve?Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Policies and Procedures 2026 (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0001 (human development and factors that influence learning).
Assessment, transitions, IEPs and IFSPs 12
A student being evaluated speaks Vietnamese at home and is still learning English. What do the IDEA evaluation procedures require of the assessments?Code of Federal Regulations, 34 CFR 300.304(c)(1)(ii) (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0003 (assessment instruments and procedures).
A toddler in SoonerStart will turn 3 in July. What is the latest the Transition Planning Conference may be held?Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Policies and Procedures 2026 (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0004 (transitions for students with disabilities).
After a parent consents to an initial evaluation, how long does an Oklahoma district have to complete the initial eligibility determination?Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Policies and Procedures 2026 (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0005 (referral, eligibility, program planning and placement).
An Oklahoma team finds a child eligible on March 3. By when must a meeting to develop the first IEP be held?Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Policies and Procedures 2026 (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0005 (referral, eligibility, program planning and placement).
By when must an Oklahoma student's IEP first include secondary transition services?Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Policies and Procedures 2026 (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0004 (transitions for students with disabilities).
During a fractions unit a teacher collects exit slips each day and regroups students for the next lesson from what they show. Which kind of assessment is this?Wikipedia, Formative assessment (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0003 (assessment instruments and procedures).
Each week a teacher gives a brief reading probe from the grade-level curriculum and charts the scores to see a student's growth. Which kind of assessment is this?Wikipedia, Curriculum-based measurement (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0003 (assessment instruments and procedures).
For a student referred for a special education evaluation, what must Oklahoma's Review of Existing Data document?Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Policies and Procedures 2026 (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0005 (referral, eligibility, program planning and placement).
For which students was the Oklahoma Alternate Assessment Program developed?Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Policies and Procedures 2026 (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0003 (assessment instruments and procedures).
IDEA defines transition services as a coordinated set of activities. On what must they be based?Code of Federal Regulations, 34 CFR 300.43 (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0004 (transitions for students with disabilities).
In Oklahoma, by when must the IEP team tell a student and the parents that special education rights will pass to the student at 18?Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Policies and Procedures 2026 (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0004 (transitions for students with disabilities).
Which statement must an IFSP contain that a school-age IEP is not required to contain?Code of Federal Regulations, 34 CFR 303.344(b) (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0005 (referral, eligibility, program planning and placement).
Learning across the curriculum 18
A district decides to remove a student who has an IEP for 15 school days for breaking the conduct code. When must the manifestation determination review take place?Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Policies and Procedures 2026 (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0010 (social skills and positive behavior interventions).
A fifth grader reads at grade level but, despite good teaching, cannot grasp what numbers mean, learn basic facts or carry out calculations. Which learning disability does this pattern suggest?Wikipedia, Dyscalculia (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0009 (instruction of mathematics).
A fourth grader reads every word correctly but slowly, one word at a time, in a flat voice. Which component of reading needs work?Wikipedia, Fluency (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0008 (instruction of reading).
A nonspeaking student is being taught to hand her teacher a picture card to ask for what she wants. Which system is in use?Wikipedia, Picture Exchange Communication System (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0007 (communication and language development).
A student slides one counter into a square for each sound he hears in the word "ship". Which tool is this, and how many squares does he fill?Wikipedia, Elkonin boxes (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0008 (instruction of reading).
A student takes the same test as his classmates with extra time, in a quiet room. How do Oklahoma's policies describe such changes?Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Policies and Procedures 2026 (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0006 (safe, engaging and productive learning environments).
A teacher flashes a card with four dots for one second, and students say "four" without counting. Which skill is this?Wikipedia, Subitizing (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0009 (instruction of mathematics).
A teacher gives a student strong support on a new skill, fitted to that student, and withdraws it as he succeeds alone. What is this support called?Wikipedia, Instructional scaffolding (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0011 (academic achievement and independent learning).
A teacher writes out every step of washing hands, from turning on the tap to drying, so the steps can be taught in order. What has the teacher produced?Wikipedia, Task analysis (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0011 (academic achievement and independent learning).
A team records what happens just before and just after a student's outbursts in order to form a hypothesis about why they occur. What is this process?Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Policies and Procedures 2026 (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0010 (social skills and positive behavior interventions).
An assessment suggests that a student tears up worksheets to escape hard tasks. Which goal fits a behavior intervention plan as Oklahoma's policies describe it?Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Policies and Procedures 2026 (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0010 (social skills and positive behavior interventions).
Asked "Do you want a snack?", a student with autism spectrum disorder answers each time by repeating "want a snack?" What is this called?Wikipedia, Echolalia (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0007 (communication and language development).
Before meeting a new class, a teacher plans each lesson with several ways to present content, to respond and to engage. Which framework is the teacher using?Wikipedia, Universal Design for Learning (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0006 (safe, engaging and productive learning environments).
Oklahoma's policies define service types such as consultation, monitoring, collaboration, co-teaching and direct instruction. What do they say about a paraprofessional?Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Policies and Procedures 2026 (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0006 (safe, engaging and productive learning environments).
To teach shoe tying, an aide does every step but the last and lets the student pull the bow tight, then hands over one more step at a time from the end. Which procedure is this?Wikipedia, Chaining (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0011 (academic achievement and independent learning).
Which term covers signing, picture boards and speech-generating devices used to supplement or replace speech?Wikipedia, Augmentative and alternative communication (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0007 (communication and language development).
Why would a teacher have a student model 32 − 17 with base-ten blocks before showing the written algorithm?Wikipedia, Manipulative (mathematics education) (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0009 (instruction of mathematics).
With no print in view, a teacher says "cat" and asks a student to say it without the /k/ sound. Which skill is being practiced?Wikipedia, Phonemic awareness (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0008 (instruction of reading).
Working in a collaborative learning community 10
A child in state custody needs someone to act as parent in special education matters. Under Oklahoma's policies, who is barred from that role?Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Policies and Procedures 2026 (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0013 (school-home collaboration and family involvement).
At an IEP meeting the parents and an Oklahoma district agree on every change the district proposes. Must the district still give prior Written Notice?Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Policies and Procedures 2026 (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0014 (history, law, ethics and professional roles).
Both parents of a student work day shifts. What does IDEA require when the school schedules the IEP meeting?Code of Federal Regulations, 34 CFR 300.322(a) (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0013 (school-home collaboration and family involvement).
In Oklahoma's definition of the co-teaching service type, how do the general education teacher and the special education teacher share the work?Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Policies and Procedures 2026 (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0012 (collaboration with the school and community).
Part C calls for early intervention services in "natural environments". What are they?Code of Federal Regulations, 34 CFR 303.26 (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0013 (school-home collaboration and family involvement).
Speech-language pathology, occupational therapy and transportation that a child needs in order to benefit from special education go by what name in IDEA?Code of Federal Regulations, 34 CFR 300.34 (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0012 (collaboration with the school and community).
Under Oklahoma law, at what point is a student too old to remain eligible for a free appropriate public education?Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Policies and Procedures 2026 (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0014 (history, law, ethics and professional roles).
Which 1972 federal court case held that students with disabilities must receive a public education even when they cannot pay for its cost?Wikipedia, Mills v. Board of Education of District of Columbia (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0014 (history, law, ethics and professional roles).
Which 1990 civil rights law prohibits discrimination based on disability and requires covered employers to provide reasonable accommodations?Wikipedia, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0014 (history, law, ethics and professional roles).
Which Oklahoma service type gives no direct service to the student, only problem solving between the special educator and the general education teacher?Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Policies and Procedures 2026 (read 2026-10-12). Outline: OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085) test framework, competency 0012 (collaboration with the school and community).
How this list was compiled: Our own questions, written to the test framework of the Oklahoma Subject Area Test (OSAT) field 085, Special Education Comprehensive Assessment, as the site of the Certification Examinations for Oklahoma Educators prints it (https://www.ceoe.nesinc.com/Content/StudyGuide/OK_SG_OBJ_085.htm and the test page https://www.ceoe.nesinc.com/TestView.aspx?f=HTML_FRAG/OK085_TestPage.html, read 2026-10-12): selected response, Understanding development and learning across the continuum, 17%; Assessing all learners, managing transitions, and developing IEPs and IFSPs, 21%; Learning across the curriculum, 30%; Working in a collaborative learning community, 17%; and one constructed-response case study, 15%; 80 selected-response questions and 1 constructed-response assignment, passing score 240. This bank holds 50 selected-response questions, spread 10, 12, 18 and 10 over the four selected-response subareas. Every fact was read on 2026-10-12 in the public page named under its question: the Oklahoma State Department of Education's Special Education Policies and Procedures 2026; the Code of Federal Regulations (34 CFR Parts 300 and 303, the IDEA regulations); and the Wikipedia article named for each remaining question. Licence: Questions, passages, choices and explanations are original work of this site.
How it works
These practice OSAT special education tests are free and unofficial: 50 questions of our own for the Special Education Comprehensive Assessment, field 085. The site is not affiliated with Oklahoma's Office of Educational Quality and Accountability or Pearson.
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OSAT Special Education (085): four selected-response subareas
By the framework read October 12, 2026: development and learning across the continuum, 17% of the test; assessment, transitions, IEPs and IFSPs, 21%; learning across the curriculum, 30%; a collaborative learning community, 17%. This bank holds 10, 12, 18 and 10. The other 15% is one written case study on a student's data, which nothing here practices.
Oklahoma's figures, not only the federal ones
Twenty questions come from the Oklahoma State Department of Education's 2026 policies and procedures, where the state sets its own figure: transition services by the 15th birthday or ninth grade, Developmental Delays for ages 3 through 9, a discrepancy of 1.5 standard deviations counted as severe.
Oklahoma sets 45 school days for the initial eligibility decision; the federal 60 days applies only where a state sets no timeframe.
Competency 0002 turns on definitions and eligibility criteria, so read the category definitions in 34 CFR 300.8 closely.
Questions and answers
Which OSAT special education test do these questions follow?
The CEOE test list has Special Education Comprehensive Assessment (085), Mild-Moderate Disabilities (129) and Severe-Profound/Multiple Disabilities (131), beside the Blind/Visual Impairment and Deaf/Hard of Hearing fields. These questions follow the framework of 085. Fields 129 and 131 have frameworks of their own.
How many questions are on the OSAT Special Education Comprehensive Assessment?
Eighty selected-response questions and one constructed-response assignment, by the test page. Testing time is 4 hours at a test center or 3 hours with an online proctor, after a 15-minute tutorial; the online session allows no breaks.
What is the passing score for the OSAT special education test?
240, on a scale from 100 to 300. The selected-response section and the written case study both count toward it, so a number right on this page cannot be turned into a scaled score.
How soon can you retake an OSAT special education test?
The CEOE retake policy names fields 085, 129 and 131 among the OSATs with a 30-day wait before the same test may be taken again. Other OSATs wait 60 days.
Are there free practice OSAT special education tests?
This one is free, with no sign-up. The CEOE site says registration also brings access to a free online practice test; none of its questions, and none of the study guide's samples, is repeated here.