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GACE Elementary Education P-5 Practice Test & Study Guide
Prepare for GACE Elementary Education P-5 with independent practice, flashcards, and connected lessons. Understand the official assessment, choose a focused study route, and review the reasoning behind missed answers.
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GACE Elementary Education P-5 Practice Tests
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GACE Elementary Education P-5 Flashcards
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GACE Elementary Education P-5 Study Guides
GACE Elementary Education P-5 assessment and course guidance
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The current Pearson GACE schedule lists Elementary Education P–5 (702) with five testlets: English Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, Science, and The Arts, Health, and Wellness (001–005). Use the current Pearson assessment directions and your program’s requirements; older ETS exam codes and formats should not be assumed to apply. Independent practice here supports learning and does not provide an official certification score. Confirm the required assessment with your state or program.
Key ideas, details, and textual evidence
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Inference, conclusions, and how ideas develop
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Word meaning, word choice, and tone
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GACE Elementary Education Practice Center
Each practice form runs all five testlets end to end, twenty questions each. Score them separately, because that is how the real assessment works: you can register for one testlet at a time and retake only the ones you need. Knowing which two are weak is worth more here than on almost any other test.
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GACE Elementary Education at a glance
Georgia rebuilt this assessment in 2025. It is no longer the two ETS subtests candidates used to take; it is a single assessment, code 702, delivered as five separate testlets that you register for individually and can sit on different days. Each testlet is about thirty selected-response questions and about a fifth of your total score, and you can retake a single testlet without redoing the rest. That structure is the most useful thing to know about it.
| Test code | 702 (Elementary Education, P-5), delivered by Evaluation Systems |
|---|---|
| Replaces | The retired ETS assessment, tests 001 and 002 and combined code 501. Georgia moved GACE from ETS to Evaluation Systems on July 1, 2025; the last ETS registration was June 12, 2025 and the final ETS content window was June 15, 2025. |
| Does an old ETS pass still count? | Georgia’s rule accepts an ETS content assessment taken in its entirety on or before June 30, 2025. A partly completed one does not carry over, and suppliers cannot be mixed within a single assessment. Check with the GaPSC about your own record. |
| Structure | One assessment, five testlets, each registered separately: 001 English Language Arts, 002 Mathematics, 003 Social Studies, 004 Science, and 005 The Arts, Health, and Wellness. All five are required. |
| Number of questions | About 30 selected-response questions per testlet. There is no constructed response. |
| Weighting | Each testlet is about 20 percent of the total score. Testlets may be taken on different days and the scores combined. |
| Format | Computer-delivered |
| Time limit | Georgia does not publish a testing time for 702 or for its individual testlets. The practice forms here budget 150 minutes for all five testlets together, which is a practice figure rather than an official limit. |
| Passing score | Georgia does not publish a numeric passing score or score scale for 702. GACE reports Induction and Professional levels; ask the GaPSC or your preparation programme what your programme requires. |
Georgia publishes the testlet structure and the within-testlet objective weights, but not a total question count, a testing time, or a passing score for 702. Anything you find online stating those numbers is a third-party estimate. What is documented: five testlets, about thirty questions each, about twenty percent of the score each, and within English Language Arts the two objectives split fifty-fifty while the other four testlets split their objectives evenly in thirds.
The five testlets, in plain language
Each testlet is registered and scored on its own. Here is what each one asks of you.
Testlet 001: English language arts (about 20 percent)
How reading and writing develop, and how a teacher supports and assesses them.
- Oral language, phonological awareness, and phonics
- Fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
- Reading literary and informational text
- Writing development, process, and conventions
- Assessing reading and responding to what the assessment shows
Testlet 002: Mathematics (about 20 percent)
Elementary mathematics and how children come to understand it.
- Counting, cardinality, and place value
- Operations, their properties, and fact strategies
- Fractions and equivalence
- Measurement, data, and geometry
- Early algebraic thinking
- How children develop mathematical ideas
Testlet 003: Social studies (about 20 percent)
History, geography, civics, and economics at elementary level.
- United States history and its major eras
- Geography, maps, and human and physical systems
- Civics, government, and citizenship
- Economics and economic reasoning
- Reading a map, a timeline, and a primary source
Testlet 004: Science (about 20 percent)
Elementary science content and the practices of investigation.
- Science and engineering practices and investigation design
- Physical science: matter, energy, force, and motion
- Life science: organisms, ecosystems, and heredity
- Earth and space science: rocks, weather, water, and the solar system
- Safety in an elementary science lesson
Testlet 005: The arts, health, and wellness (about 20 percent)
The four arts disciplines together with health and physical development.
- The elements of visual art, music, dance, and drama
- Children’s artistic development
- Motor development and fundamental movement skills
- Fitness, nutrition, and personal health
- Safety and social and emotional wellbeing
A study routine built around five separate testlets
The testlet structure changes how you should study. You are not preparing for one four-hour day; you are preparing for five short tests you can take on five different days, in whatever order you like. Use that.
Complete lesson map
One hundred twenty-two lessons on the literacy and mathematics behind the first two testlets, each opening in a new tab, followed by the topics the other three testlets cover.
Key ideas, details, and textual evidence
Inference, conclusions, and how ideas develop
Word meaning, word choice, and tone
Text structure, features, and organization
Purpose, perspective, and point of view
Evaluating claims, evidence, and reasoning
Integrating information across texts and formats
Sentence Foundations
Sentence Boundaries
Agreement, Verbs, and Pronouns
Punctuation and Capitalization
Spelling and Confused Words
Knowledge of Language
Vocabulary and Word Parts
Counting, place value, and operations
Fractions and decimals
Ratios, proportion, and percent
Algebraic thinking and patterns
The coordinate plane
Measurement and geometry
Data, statistics, and probability
Science topics (no lessons on site yet)
- 123Science and engineering practices, and designing an investigation
- 124Variables, fair tests, and lab safety
- 125Matter, its properties, and changes of state
- 126Forces, motion, and simple machines
- 127Forms of energy, heat, light, and sound
- 128Cells, organ systems, and the needs of living things
- 129Ecosystems, food webs, and adaptation
- 130Life cycles, reproduction, and heredity
- 131Rocks, minerals, and the rock cycle
- 132Weather, climate, and the water cycle
- 133Earth, the moon, the sun, and the solar system
Social studies topics
- 134Map elements, region, latitude, and longitude
- 135Physical and human geography
- 136The branches and levels of government
- 137Rights, responsibilities, and civic participation
- 138Scarcity, opportunity cost, and supply and demand
- 139Goods, services, producers, and consumers
- 140Indigenous North America and European colonization
- 141The Revolution, the Constitution, and the early republic
- 142Expansion, the Civil War, and Reconstruction
- 143Industrialization, immigration, and the twentieth century
- 144Reading a timeline, a map, and a primary source
The arts, health, and physical development
- 145The elements of visual art: line, shape, form, texture, value, color, space
- 146The elements of music: rhythm, melody, harmony, dynamics, tempo, timbre
- 147The elements of dance and of drama
- 148How children develop artistically
- 149Gross and fine motor development
- 150Locomotor and manipulative skills
- 151The health-related components of fitness
- 152Nutrition and food groups
- 153Personal hygiene, safety, and community health
- 154Social and emotional learning
Before test day
Two things about this assessment are worth holding on to. First, the testlets are independent, so a bad day costs you one fifth of the assessment rather than all of it, and you retake only that piece. Second, Georgia does not publish a testing time or a passing score for 702, so treat any specific number you read elsewhere as somebody’s estimate and confirm what you need with the GaPSC or your programme.
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GACE Elementary Education P-5: study questions
What should I know about the official GACE Elementary Education P-5 assessment?
The current Pearson GACE schedule lists Elementary Education P–5 (702) with five testlets: English Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, Science, and The Arts, Health, and Wellness (001–005). Use the current Pearson assessment directions and your program’s requirements; older ETS exam codes and formats should not be assumed to apply. Independent practice here supports learning and does not provide an official certification score. Confirm the required assessment with your state or program.
Official source ↗How should I use these independent GACE Elementary Education P-5 study tools?
Start with a practice activity, review explanations for missed questions, and use quick review or flashcards for one weak topic. The practice results are study feedback, not official exam scores. Compare a book’s contents with your course or test requirements before buying.
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