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Key Facts: Saber Pro Educación Exam

50+50+50

Official 2026-2 item counts for Enseñar, Formar and Evaluar when combinatoria 41 is assigned

ICFES Guías de orientación Enseñar, Formar y Evaluar Saber Pro 2026-2

Combinatoria 41

2026-2 Educación NBC (Saber Pro) and Normales Superiores (Saber TyT) combinatoria for these three modules

ICFES Oferta de combinatorias Saber Pro 2026-2 and Saber TyT 2026-2

4 h 30 min

Session-2 time when two or three specific modules are assigned

ICFES Oferta de combinatorias Saber Pro 2026-2

0–300

Score scale for each specific module; not averaged into Puntaje Global

ICFES Guía de orientación Saber Pro 2026-1

COP 126,000

2026 ordinary Saber Pro fee for public IES; no separate education-module fee is published

Resolución 000629 of 11 November 2025

Spanish

Official guides and items are issued in Spanish

ICFES Guías Enseñar, Formar y Evaluar 2026-2

Shared docs

ICFES applies the same Enseñar, Formar and Evaluar documentation to Saber TyT for Escuelas Normales Superiores

ICFES Caja de herramientas Saber TyT / Guía Formar 2026-2

75% credits

First-time IES-registered students who have passed at least 75% of program credits sit Saber Pro

ICFES Acerca del examen Saber Pro

ICFES education combinatoria 41: three 50-item Spanish MCQ modules (Enseñar, Formar, Evaluar) scored 0–300 each, not part of the generic Puntaje Global.

Sample Saber Pro Educación Practice Questions

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1A grado 9 chemistry teacher photocopies university thermochemistry derivations and assigns them as the first lesson on heat. Which action best recontextualizes the discipline for the educational act?
A.Rebuild scholarly ideas as school tasks: everyday heat phenomena, then controlled trials, then symbolic relations
B.Require students to memorize the university derivations before any laboratory work
C.Drop chemistry's empirical character and replace the unit with students' untested opinions about weather
D.Skip heat entirely because university chemistry cannot be taught in basic education
Explanation: Transposición didáctica recontextualizes scholarly knowledge as teachable school knowledge without abandoning the discipline's nature. Starting from phenomena students can investigate, then moving toward symbolic relations, keeps chemistry's empirical character while making it learnable in grado 9.
2In ciencias naturales, students treat 'the scientific method' as a fixed five-step recipe copied from the textbook cover. Which move best shows that the teacher knows the nature of the discipline?
A.Add two extra ritual steps so the recipe looks more complete
B.Replace all investigation with a lecture on famous scientists' biographies
C.Ask students to copy the five steps until they can recite them without looking
D.Design an inquiry in which students pose questions, handle evidence, and revise claims
Explanation: Knowing the nature of natural science means treating it as a way of producing and testing knowledge, not as a ceremonial sequence. An inquiry that involves questions, evidence, and revised claims recontextualizes that nature in the classroom.
3A grado 4 language teacher wants students to write narrative texts. Which choice best uses the didactics of language rather than only academic linguistics?
A.Begin with a university lecture on narratology terms before any reading or writing
B.Limit the unit to underlining nouns and verbs in disconnected sentences
C.Have students copy a published story by hand as the only writing task
D.Sequence mentor narratives, oral rehearsal of students' own stories, drafting, and revision against textual criteria
Explanation: Language didactics organizes reading, oral rehearsal, production, and revision so students learn to do the discursive practices of the subject. Mentor texts plus drafting against criteria recontextualize narrative as something students produce, not only as metalanguage they name.
4A primaria teacher plans a unit on local plants. A biologist parent offers university species keys written for specialists. How should the teacher recontextualize that disciplinary resource?
A.Keep the keys' comparative logic but rebuild them with observable schoolyard traits, drawings, and shared vocabulary
B.Hand out the specialist keys unchanged so the class meets 'real biology'
C.Discard classification entirely because children cannot yet use any systematic comparison
D.Replace observation with a coloring sheet of invented cartoon plants
Explanation: Recontextualization preserves the discipline's comparative, evidence-based character while changing the objects, language, and tasks so they are teachable. Schoolyard traits and shared vocabulary keep classification as biology, not as a specialist exam.
5A ciencias sociales teacher treats history as a list of presidents and dates to be recited. Which redesign best respects history as a discipline?
A.Shorten the list so students memorize fewer names in the same recitation format
B.Have students question a local archive, photograph, or testimony and argue what it can and cannot show about the past
C.Replace historical study with current-events opinions that need no sources
D.Assign only multiple-choice date drills because interpretation is too advanced for school
Explanation: History's nature includes working with traces of the past and arguing warranted interpretations. Using a source's possibilities and limits recontextualizes that disciplinary practice in class, instead of reducing history to a chronology to recite.
6An English-as-school-subject teacher in grado 7 spends every lesson translating isolated vocabulary lists. Which change best applies the didactics of additional-language teaching?
A.Increase the number of lists and test them twice a week
B.Switch entirely to grammar-rule lectures with no communicative use
C.Organize tasks in which students listen, speak, read, and write for a real classroom purpose, recycling needed language
D.Stop teaching English because lists are the only method available in Colombian schools
Explanation: Didactics of an additional language favors learning through purposeful comprehension and production, not only through decontextualized lists. Tasks that recycle language for a classroom purpose recontextualize communicative use while still teaching form as needed.
7Students in grado 8 explain seasons by saying 'the Earth is closer to the Sun in December.' The physics teacher knows this contradicts the disciplinary model. What is the strongest didactic response?
A.Mark the idea wrong and move on without confronting the model
B.Accept the everyday idea because school science should not challenge common sense
C.Replace the unit with a poem about summer so affect replaces models
D.Elicit the everyday idea, contrast it with evidence and a simple orbital model, and have students revise the explanation
Explanation: Didactics of physics works with students' prior models rather than ignoring them. Contrasting the proximity idea with evidence and a school-level orbital model is transposición: the scholarly explanation is rebuilt so learners can change their representation.
8A colleague says transposición didáctica means 'make the topic easier by cutting everything difficult.' How should you correct that reading for Enseñar?
A.Transposición rebuilds scholarly knowledge as school knowledge while keeping the discipline's ways of knowing; it is not mere deletion of difficulty
B.Transposición means translating the university syllabus word for word into simpler Spanish
C.Transposición is ICFES's name for copying Estándares Básicos as the lesson plan
D.Transposición is a U.S. evaluation rubric for rating teachers' classroom climate
Explanation: In the Chevallard sense used in teacher education, transposición didáctica is the transformation of scholarly knowledge into teachable knowledge for a given educational act. Cutting difficulty without preserving the discipline's nature is impoverishment, not transposición.
9A media académica biology class uses a textbook that presents knowledge as finished facts. The teacher also runs a school garden where students collect data that sometimes contradict the book. What is the most coherent way to honor the nature of the discipline?
A.Forbid garden data whenever they disagree with the textbook so authority stays clear
B.Treat the mismatch as a chance to discuss how biological knowledge is warranted by evidence and remains revisable
C.Abandon the textbook forever and treat only anecdotal garden stories as biology
D.Split the course: 'real science' in the garden and 'exam science' as uncritical memorization of the book
Explanation: Biology's nature includes evidence, models, and revisable claims. Using a clash between school-garden data and a closed textbook to talk about warrant recontextualizes that nature instead of hiding it. Students still need structured knowledge, but not as an untouchable list.
10In an etnoeducative primaria, a science unit on water must meet national curricular referents and also local river knowledge held by elders. Which design best recontextualizes the discipline without treating either source as decoration?
A.Teach the national unit first in Spanish, then add a folklore hour that is not assessed
B.Use only oral ancestral accounts and omit any systematic observation or representation
C.Build tasks in which students compare local hydrological practices with school science models and make both visible in the malla
D.Translate the urban textbook word for word so the school proves it is 'up to date'
Explanation: Knowing the nature of science in this educational act includes both empirical school models and community knowledge as intellectual resources. Comparative tasks that enter the malla recontextualize the discipline in context rather than stacking a folkloric appendix onto an untouched textbook.

About the Saber Pro Educación Exam

The ICFES modules Enseñar, Formar and Evaluar are the Saber Pro specific-competency modules for SNIES NBC Educación (Ciencias de la educación). They are part of the Examen de Estado de la Calidad de la Educación Superior under Ley 1324 de 2009, not a professional-licensure exam. ICFES's 2026-2 combinatoria table assigns them together as combinatoria 41. The same three modules, with shared ICFES documentation, are combinatoria 41 for Escuelas Normales Superiores on Saber TyT. Each 2026-2 guide specifies 50 Spanish single-answer multiple-choice items. Enseñar is weighted in three equal afirmaciones (didactics, curriculum design, teaching-learning activities); Formar in four equal afirmaciones; Evaluar in three equal afirmaciones. Scoring uses a 0–300 scale per module. This free bank is an English-language four-option MCQ study adaptation of the official afirmaciones and evidencias — not an official ICFES translation, not a format simulation of the Spanish booklet, and not a substitute for the generic Saber Pro or Saber TyT sitting.

Assessment

Saber Pro session 1 (all candidates): five generic modules in 4 hours 40 minutes. When an IES selects Ciencias de la educación / Educación combinatoria 41, session 2 assigns Enseñar, Formar and Evaluar in 4 hours 30 minutes. Combinatoria 0 is generics only. ICFES also offers the same three modules as Saber TyT combinatoria 41 for Escuelas Normales Superiores, using shared documentation.

Time Limit

Session 2: 4 hours 30 minutes when two or three specific modules are assigned (combinatoria 41). Plus 4 hours 40 minutes for the generic session.

Passing Score

No pass/fail. Each module scored 0–300 and reported separately. These scores are not averaged into the Puntaje Global.

Exam Fee

No separate module fee is published. Eligible first-time students registered by an IES pay the applicable 2026 ordinary Saber Pro fee: public IES COP 126,000; private IES COP 126,000–224,000 by tuition band (Resolución 000629 of 11 November 2025). (ICFES (Instituto Colombiano para la Evaluación de la Educación))

Saber Pro Educación Exam Content Outline

33.3% of Enseñar

Enseñar — didáctica de las disciplinas

Know the nature of the discipline and its didactics in order to recontextualize knowledge in teaching (evidencias 1.1–1.2).

33.3% of Enseñar

Enseñar — curriculum and unit design

Set teaching objectives, design mallas curriculares and sequences, and plan teaching-learning-assessment strategies (evidencias 2.1–2.3).

33.3% of Enseñar

Enseñar — teaching-learning activities

Connect students' attitudes and experiences, cognitive development, and instructional devices to conceptual, attitudinal and procedural growth (evidencias 3.1–3.3; Guía 2026-2 lists four evidencias).

25% of Formar

Formar — student characteristics

Value cultural and cognitive diversity and use social interaction situations in formation (evidencias 1.1–1.2).

25% of Formar

Formar — cultural development

Educability, socialization strategies, and public policy for citizenship formation (evidencias 2.1–2.3).

25% of Formar

Formar — professional development

Reflective practice as intellectual/research work and using systematization to qualify teaching (evidencias 3.1–3.2).

25% of Formar

Formar — school as social-cultural centre

Public-policy principles, PEI construction, and family/community links (evidencias 4.1–4.3).

33.3% of Evaluar

Evaluar — alternatives for evaluating

Follow-up, collective criteria and instruments, and flexible evaluation practices (evidencias 1.1–1.3).

33.3% of Evaluar

Evaluar — impact on improvement

Use results to improve curriculum and teaching, and communicate results for academic and administrative improvement (evidencias 2.1–2.2).

33.3% of Evaluar

Evaluar — self-regulation and system quality

Use evaluation to support learner self-regulation and to establish educational-system quality (evidencias 3.1–3.2).

How to Pass the Saber Pro Educación Exam

What You Need to Know

  • Passing score: No pass/fail. Each module scored 0–300 and reported separately. These scores are not averaged into the Puntaje Global.
  • Assessment: Saber Pro session 1 (all candidates): five generic modules in 4 hours 40 minutes. When an IES selects Ciencias de la educación / Educación combinatoria 41, session 2 assigns Enseñar, Formar and Evaluar in 4 hours 30 minutes. Combinatoria 0 is generics only. ICFES also offers the same three modules as Saber TyT combinatoria 41 for Escuelas Normales Superiores, using shared documentation.
  • Time limit: Session 2: 4 hours 30 minutes when two or three specific modules are assigned (combinatoria 41). Plus 4 hours 40 minutes for the generic session.
  • Exam fee: No separate module fee is published. Eligible first-time students registered by an IES pay the applicable 2026 ordinary Saber Pro fee: public IES COP 126,000; private IES COP 126,000–224,000 by tuition band (Resolución 000629 of 11 November 2025).

Keys to Passing

  • Work through all 92 available questions
  • Review every answer and explanation
  • Track weak areas and revisit them
  • Use our AI tutor for tough concepts

Saber Pro Educación Study Tips from Top Performers

1Treat combinatoria 41 as three equal official modules: about one-third of study time on Enseñar, one-third on Formar, and one-third on Evaluar.
2Inside Enseñar, split effort evenly across didactics, curriculum design, and classroom activities (33.3% each in the marco).
3Inside Formar, split effort evenly across the four afirmaciones (25% each).
4ICFES items are situations, not definition lists. Ask which acción mejora enseñanza, formación or evaluación in the case given.
5These MCQs are an English study aid. Practise also with ICFES's Spanish cuadernillos so the official language and stem style are not a surprise.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is ICFES Saber Pro Enseñar, Formar y Evaluar?

They are the three specific-competency modules of Colombia's Saber Pro Examen de Estado for professional programs in SNIES NBC Educación. Eligible first-time candidates registered by their IES sit 50 Spanish single-answer multiple-choice items in each module when combinatoria 41 is assigned.

Is this the same as the generic Saber Pro bank?

No. The generic Saber Pro sitting (Lectura Crítica, Razonamiento Cuantitativo, Competencias Ciudadanas, Comunicación Escrita, and Inglés) is a separate session and makes the Puntaje Global. These three modules are the education-specific sitting and are scored separately 0–300.

Do Escuelas Normales Superiores sit different modules?

No. ICFES's 2026-2 Formar guide lists NBC Educación and Escuelas Normales Superiores as audiences for these modules. Saber TyT combinatoria 41 assigns the same Enseñar, Formar and Evaluar modules, and ICFES states the documentation is shared from Saber Pro.

How many questions and how long is the official combinatoria?

Each 2026-2 orientation guide states 50 selección múltiple con única respuesta items per module. Combinatoria 41's three specific modules share a 4-hour-30-minute second session, plus 4 hours 40 minutes for the generic session.

How are the modules scored?

There is no pass/fail cut. Each module is scored 0–300 without decimals and reported separately. Those scores are not averaged into the Puntaje Global.

Is this practice bank in the same language and format as the real exam?

No. ICFES issues the current module guides and items in Spanish. This bank is an English-language four-option MCQ study adaptation of the official afirmaciones, not an official translation or a substitute for sitting the Spanish booklet.