TExES PPR EC-12 (160) Pass Rate 2026

There is no official pass rate for the TExES Pedagogy and Professional Responsibilities EC-12 (160). The Texas Education Agency owns the standard and Pearson administers the exam, and neither publishes the share of candidates who pass it — the official test page lists the format, the appointment length, the fee and the passing score, and stops there. TEA does publish pass-rate data that covers pedagogy tests, but it is calculated per educator preparation program, across two attempts, on a defined slice of candidates, which makes it a genuine number about programs rather than a pass rate for this exam. The only official threshold you can act on is a scaled score of 240 — and 240 is not a percentage.

How the TExES PPR EC-12 is actually scored

The PPR is a computer-administered test — CAT on the official page means administered, not adaptive — with 100 selected-response questions and 4 hours 45 minutes of testing time inside a 5-hour appointment. That works out to roughly two minutes fifty seconds per question, which is unusually generous for a 100-item selected-response exam and tells you that the PPR is not designed as a speed test.

The scoring is where the internet goes wrong. Pearson's official explanation of TExES results states that "total exam performance scores for all exams in the AAFCS, PACT, and TExES series are reported on a scale of 100 to 300, with a score of 240 established as the minimum passing score," and that "scaled scores are comparable across all versions of the same exam." Both halves of that sentence matter. The scale floor is 100, not zero, so the reportable range is 200 points wide and 240 sits 70% of the way up it — not 80%, which is what you get by dividing 240 by 300 and which is the most common error on pages ranking for this query. And because scaled scores are made comparable across versions, the conversion from correct answers to scaled score is adjusted for the difficulty of the specific form you sat. There is no fixed number of correct answers that equals 240, which is exactly why TEA and Pearson do not publish one.

Official figure	TExES PPR EC-12 (160)
Questions	100 selected-response, computer-administered
Testing time	4 hours 45 minutes (285 minutes)
Total appointment	5 hours, including 15 minutes for the CAT tutorial and compliance agreement
Score scale	100 to 300 (scaled)
Passing score	240 scaled
Fee	$116 (additional fees may apply)
Retake wait	30 days from the prior attempt's exam date
Attempt limit	5 (first attempt plus four retakes)
Scores released	10:00 p.m. Central on the score report date for your test date
Administered by	Pearson, for the Texas Education Agency

Your score report also breaks performance out by domain and competency, but Pearson is explicit that those counts are "provided for informational purposes only," that "individual domains do not have passing scores," and that "the number of scored questions within a given domain may vary across different versions of an exam." It further warns that data based on fewer than about ten questions is too unreliable to interpret. Only the total scaled score determines whether you passed.

What TEA's published data does and does not cover

TEA is not silent on pass rates, which is why this question is more confusing for the PPR than for most exams. Under the Accountability System for Educator Preparation, TEA publishes Indicator 1A, "Certification Examination Pass Rates for Pedagogy Tests," as a dashboard covering data through the 2024-2025 school year and generated on February 13, 2026. The 2024-2025 ASEP Manual uses the PPR EC-12 (160) as its worked example for that indicator. So there is official Texas data with the PPR inside it — it simply is not a PPR pass rate.

Three rules in the manual explain why. First, the unit is the preparation program, not the exam: every figure is one EPP's result, and pedagogy tests are pooled as a group rather than reported test by test. Second, the calculation counts a candidate as passing if they passed "on the first or second attempt," dividing those passes by first-or-second-attempt passes plus second-attempt failures. Third, and most distorting, candidates who failed the first attempt and have not yet taken a second are excluded from the calculation entirely. A rate built that way is structurally higher than a first-attempt pass rate, and it is meant to be — it measures whether a program eventually gets its candidates certified, not how hard the test is on the day. The population is also limited to people admitted to an EPP after December 26, 2016, which leaves out anyone testing outside a program.

One more trap: the ASEP Manual's worked example returns 82%, arrived at as 9 ÷ 11 from a table of invented candidates named Andrea, Betty and Carlos. It is an illustration of the arithmetic, not a measurement of anything. Any "82% pass rate" traced back to that page is citing a fictional classroom.

What separates passing from failing candidates

Because time pressure is mild and the cut score is equated, the PPR rewards coverage over speed. The official framework weights the four domains unevenly, and the weighting does not match where most candidates spend their study time.

Domain	Competencies	Approx. % of exam
I. Designing Instruction and Assessment to Promote Student Learning	001-004	34%
II. Creating a Positive, Productive Classroom Environment	005-006	13%
III. Implementing Effective, Responsive Instruction and Assessment	007-010	33%
IV. Fulfilling Professional Roles and Responsibilities	011-013	20%

Two domains carry two-thirds of the exam. Domains I and III together are 67% of the test — developmental processes, planning responsive learning experiences, designing instruction and assessment, communicating effectively, engaging students, using technology, and monitoring performance with timely feedback. A candidate strong in those two areas has a wide margin everywhere else.

Classroom management is the smallest domain. Domain II is 13%, roughly thirteen questions. It is the area candidates worry about most and the one that moves the total score least.

Domain IV is the cheapest 20% on the exam. Family communication, professional development, and the legal and ethical requirements of Texas education are finite, learnable material with defined right answers. Leaving points there is the most avoidable way to fail.

Diagnosing a failure is harder than passing. Since domains have no passing scores, scored-question counts shift between versions, and Pearson cautions against reading small question counts, a failed score report will not reliably tell you which domain sank you. Retakes are also expensive in time: 30 days between attempts, the full $116 each time, a hard ceiling of five attempts, and TEA approval of a test-limit waiver if you exhaust them.

The bottom line

Nobody publishes a PPR EC-12 pass rate, and the official-looking Texas data that does exist measures programs across two attempts rather than candidates on one. What is verifiable is the part that should shape your studying: 100 questions, 285 minutes, a 100-to-300 scale with 240 as the minimum passing score, and two domains that account for 67% of the exam. Stop hunting for the percentage you need to score. It does not exist as a fixed number, because the raw-to-scaled conversion is adjusted for the form you happen to receive. Study to the domain weights, not to an imagined 80%.

The practical next move is to find out which domains you are actually losing points in before you spend the $116 and start the 30-day retake clock. Work through a free TExES Pedagogy and Professional Responsibilities EC-12 practice test and check your weakest area against the weighting table above.