Site-specific menu

• Home
• About
• Academics
• Advising
• Alumni
• Certification
• Faculty and Staff Resources
• Giving
• Internships
• Scholarships
• Technology Resources
• Directory
• Contact Us

Spotlights

Michigan Test for Teacher/Administrator Certification (MTTC)

• Register for MTTC
• Request Additional Score Report
• Secondary and Elementary Majors/Minors and Corresponding MTTC Test Numbers

Basic Skills Test (#96)

Successful completion of all three sections (reading, writing, math) of the Basic Skills Test is required for admission to WMU's upper professional level courses and for Michigan teacher certification.

Free resources for Basic Skills Test Preparation

• Tutoring
• College Success Reading Seminars
• Writing Center
• MTTC Study Guide for the Basic Skills Test

Certification Exams

Currently, a Michigan Secondary Provisional Certificate is valid for teaching in subject areas (major and minor) grades 6-12, unless the major is designed for grades K-12; an Elementary Provisional Certificate is valid for teaching all subjects in grades kindergarten to fifth grade and kindergarten to eighth grade teaching all subjects in a self-contained classroom (where the majority of instruction is provided by one teacher) and grades 6-8 in which the applicant has completed a major or minors(s).

• Public Act 282 (1992) amends PA 267 (1986) and mandates that persons seeking certification for the first time will pass the appropriate subject area test(s) in the major and minor areas of preparation (regardless of areas in which they will intern teach) prior to certification. You must add the appropriate subject to your certificate within five years of program completion and testing. If you fail to be endorsed within this time period, you will need to have your program reviewed and re-test.
• The Elementary Education test is mandatory for all students seeking elementary certification including all Special Education students. 
• The Basic Skills Test, consisting of three subject area tests:  reading, mathematics and writing, must be passed prior to admission to upper-division professional education classes and is mandatory prior to intern teaching.

Resources for Certification Test Preparation

• MTTC has study guides for each exam.
• Consider borrowing a high school level test book in the subject (history, for instance) from the library.
• Check Barnes and Noble--they have an excellent study guide/test prep area. Sometimes looking at those materials for OTHER tests, such as the MTTC or CBEST, is helpful.
• Search online for "MTTC test prep"