Check NES Educational Leadership (815) passing requirements, question formats, testing time and scoring information, with links to publisher sources.
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NES Educational Leadership (815): Exam Info
Exam facts
- Exam
- NES Educational Leadership (815)
- State / jurisdiction
- Multiple States
- Credential area
- School principal
- Questions
- 70 multiple-choice questions; 3 constructed-response assignments; 1 case study written assignment
- Testing time
- 225 minutes (3 hours 45 minutes)
- Appointment time
- 240 minutes (4 hours)
- Passing score
- 220
- Scoring
- National benchmark score. Your state may set a different passing score.
Content and scoring
- Visionary Leadership For All: approximately 20%
- Student Learning: approximately 30%
- Systems for Capacity Building: approximately 30%
- Resource Management and Educational Law: approximately 20%
The published passing score is 220. National benchmark score. Your state may set a different passing score. A practice percentage on a TeacherPreps diagnostic is not a scaled exam score.
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Checked November 7, 2026. Content areas and weights come from the exam framework; administrative details come from the publisher test pages.
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