TExES Exam Cheat Sheet 2026

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1. Which EC-6 science concept describes the transfer of heat through direct contact? → Conduction
2. Which process describes the movement of water from soil into plant roots? → Osmosis
3. Which teaching strategy helps students connect abstract algebraic concepts to real-world contexts? → Using contextual word problems and modeling scenarios
4. Which artistic movement unites the works of Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and Max Ernst? → Dada
5. Which layer of Earth is responsible for tectonic plate movement? → Asthenosphere
6. Which type of bond involves the sharing of electrons between atoms? → Covalent bond
7. A campus is identified as needing improvement under Texas accountability. The principal MUST first: → Develop a targeted improvement plan addressing the specific identified deficiencies
8. Which property allows you to rewrite 3(x + 4) as 3x + 12? → Distributive property
9. Which data source is MOST useful for a principal analyzing overall student academic performance trends over time? → Longitudinal STAAR assessment data
10. 6 months; 1000 words; 1- and 2-word phrases. → Early Production
11. In economics, 'opportunity cost' is defined as: → The value of the best alternative foregone when making any economic choice
12. "Conscious learning can only serve as a monitor or an editor," → Monitor Hypothesis
13. Errors of this kind include misplaced modifiers, dangling participles, and a lack of subject-verb agreement in a student's writing. → Syntax
14. Which of the following actions exhibited by a 2-year-old child is the most obvious sign that the child's motor development may be compromised? → Making involuntary hand movements
15. CALP, cognitive academic language proficiency. → Cummins
16. How did Chuck Close's following painting career be impacted by a significant medical event? → Close modified his techniques to accommodate his restrictions.
17. Newton's Second Law of Motion is represented by which equation? → F = ma
18. FERPA protects which type of student information? → All education records and personally identifiable information
19. The Pythagorean theorem states that in a right triangle with legs a and b and hypotenuse c: → a² + b² = c²
20. Under the economic doctrine of mercantilism, colonies existed primarily to: → Enrich the mother country through favorable trade balances
21. A wide range of academic concepts, chances for meaningful dialogue, parallel social and cognitive development, and linguistic functions. → Use Content-Based Instruction
22. A teacher reads aloud while students follow along in their own copies. This is BEST described as: → Shared reading
23. Which statistical display is BEST for showing the distribution and spread of a data set? → Box plot
24. Which of these is required as part of an enrichment curriculum for K–12 students under the Texas Education Code's Essential Knowledge and Skills? → physical education
25. Which domain is NOT part of the TExES Core Subjects EC-6 exam framework? → Advanced Calculus
26. Which measure of central tendency is MOST affected by an extreme outlier? → Mean
27. In EC-6 science, what is the purpose of a fair test? → To change only one variable while keeping others constant
28. Which type of classroom instruction is required for ELL students in accordance with the Texas Administrative Code's English Language Proficiency Standards? → ESL instruction integrated with content-area instruction
29. A high school teacher wants students to discover the formula for the area of a circle. Which approach BEST promotes conceptual understanding? → Have students rearrange sectors of a circle to approximate a parallelogram
30. Finding ways to keep core beliefs and traditions from the old culture while assimilating into and becoming a part of the new culture. → Adaptation