Praxis School Leaders Licensure Assessment (SLLA) (6990): Exam Info

Exam facts

Exam

Praxis School Leaders Licensure Assessment (SLLA) (6990)

State / jurisdiction

Multiple States

Credential area

School principal

Delivery

Computer delivered

Questions

120 selected-response questions; 4 constructed-response questions

Testing time

240 minutes (4 hours)

The test has two separately timed sections: 165 minutes for the selected-response questions and 75 minutes for the constructed-response questions.

Content and scoring

• Strategic Leadership: approximately 13%
• Instructional Leadership: approximately 17%
• Climate and Cultural Leadership: approximately 13%
• Ethical Leadership: approximately 12%
• Organizational Leadership: approximately 10%
• Community Engagement Leadership: approximately 10%
• Analysis Constructed Response (CR): approximately 25%

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Publisher sources

Checked November 7, 2026. Content areas and weights come from the exam framework; administrative details come from the publisher test pages.

• Praxis School Leaders Licensure Assessment (SLLA) (6990): source 1
• Praxis School Leaders Licensure Assessment (SLLA) (6990): source 2

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