To pass the LET you need a general average of 75%, and no rating below 50% in any single part of the exam. You must clear both. Missing either one means you do not pass, no matter how well you did elsewhere.
That is the short answer. But "75%" does not mean what most examinees assume it means. It is not simply 75% of the questions you answered correctly. Here is how the number is really built — and why two people can get exactly the same number of questions right, and only one of them passes.
There are two rules, and you need both
Rule 1 — the 75% general average. Your final score must be 75% or higher.
Rule 2 — the 50% floor. No single part of the exam may fall below 50%. That is 75 correct out of 150 in that part.
Rule 2 is the one that surprises people. You can have a general average above 75% and still fail, because one part dropped under the floor. A very strong Professional Education score does not rescue a collapsed Specialization score.
Your score is weighted, not just counted
The LET is not one big pile of questions. It is three separate parts, and they do not count equally.
For Secondary examinees:
- General Education — 20% of your final score (150 questions)
- Professional Education — 40% of your final score (150 questions)
- Area of Specialization — 40% of your final score (150 questions)
For Elementary examinees there is no specialization part:
- General Education — 40% of your final score
- Professional Education — 60% of your final score
Look at the Secondary numbers again. General Education is a third of the questions you answer, but only a fifth of your grade. Specialization is also a third of the questions — but twice the grade. Those are very different jobs, and most examinees study them as if they were the same.
Why your raw score is not your score
This is the part that catches people out, so here is a concrete example. Two Secondary examinees, both answered 330 out of 450 questions correctly. Same raw total. Both stayed above the 50% floor in every part.
Ana:
- General Education: 130/150 — that is 86.7%
- Professional Education: 100/150 — that is 66.7%
- Specialization: 100/150 — that is 66.7%
Her weighted score: (86.7 × 0.20) + (66.7 × 0.40) + (66.7 × 0.40) = 70.7%. Ana fails.
Ben:
- General Education: 90/150 — that is 60%
- Professional Education: 120/150 — that is 80%
- Specialization: 120/150 — that is 80%
His weighted score: (60 × 0.20) + (80 × 0.40) + (80 × 0.40) = 76%. Ben passes.
Same 330 correct answers. Ana fails, Ben passes. The difference is not how many questions they got right — it is which questions.
Ana spent her effort where the exam pays least. Ben spent his where it pays most. That is the whole lesson.
What the exam actually looks like
For Secondary examinees, the LET is 450 multiple-choice questions — three parts of 150 each, taken in one day. Elementary examinees take two parts instead of three.
The questions are not all the same difficulty. The Professional Regulation Commission's enhanced Table of Specifications sets a deliberate mix:
- About 30% easy — straight recall, definitions, facts you either know or do not
- About 50% moderate — you have to understand and apply an idea, not just remember it
- About 20% difficult — analysis, judgement, situations you have not seen before
That mix is why memorising alone stops working somewhere around a 60% score. Roughly seven out of ten questions ask you to use something rather than recall it.
What this means for how you study
If you are a Secondary examinee, Professional Education and your Specialization together are 80% of your grade. General Education is the remaining 20%. Yet General Education is the part most people over-study, because it feels familiar and the questions feel answerable.
Three things follow from the arithmetic:
- Protect the floor first. Find your weakest part and get it clearly above 50% before you polish anything else. A single part under the floor ends your attempt.
- Then buy points where they are cheapest. One extra correct answer in Specialization is worth twice one in General Education.
- Practise under time, in full parts. Knowing a topic and scoring on it under exam conditions are different skills.
One thing this is not: the passing rate
The passing score is 75% — the mark you personally need to hit. The passing rate is something else entirely: the share of examinees who passed in a given cycle, usually somewhere between 30% and 50% nationally. They are different numbers about different things, and they are easy to mix up.
The passing score is the only one you control. If you want the other one, we wrote about what LET passing rates actually mean separately.
The rules in one place
- General average of 75% or higher — required
- No part below 50% (75 out of 150) — also required
- Secondary weighting: 20% / 40% / 40% (GenEd / ProfEd / Specialization)
- Elementary weighting: 40% / 60% (GenEd / ProfEd)
- Your raw total is not your general average — the weighting changes it
The scoring rules come from the Professional Regulatory Board for Professional Teachers. The current Table of Specifications is Board Resolution No. 11, series of 2022, amended by Resolution No. 11, series of 2025. Always confirm the details for your own cycle on the PRC website before exam day.