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Key Facts: Saber TyT ENS Educación Exam

50+50+50

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

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

Combinatoria 41

2026-2 Normales superiores combinatoria for Enseñar, Formar and Evaluar on Saber TyT

ICFES Oferta de combinatorias Saber TyT 2026-2

0–200

Saber TyT module score scale, without decimals; not the Saber Pro 0–300 scale

ICFES Guía de orientación módulos genéricos Saber TyT 2026-2

4 h 40 min

Generic-session time, including the open Comunicación Escrita task

ICFES Guía de orientación módulos genéricos Saber TyT 2026-2

Art. 39

ENS students register only through their Normal Superior; Saber TyT is not a graduation requirement for formación complementaria

Resolución ICFES 675 de 2019 art. 39

Not separately listed

2026 fee for ENS students or combinatoria 41; ICFES's general Saber Pro/TyT tariff table does not name this population

Resolución 000629 of 11 November 2025

Spanish

Official guides and items for these modules 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; the exam identities remain distinct

ICFES Caja de herramientas Saber TyT

Saber TyT combinatoria 41 for Escuelas Normales Superiores: three 50-item Spanish MCQ modules (Enseñar, Formar, Evaluar) scored 0–200 each, not a graduation requirement and not the Saber Pro sitting.

Sample Saber TyT ENS Educación Practice Questions

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1In transición at the escuela anexa, a normalista copies a university seminar on Piaget and reads it aloud during the play block. Which move best recontextualizes that disciplinary knowledge for the educational act?
A.Use developmental ideas to choose roles, materials, and prompts for purposeful play rather than presenting the theory as a lecture
B.Rewrite the seminar in simpler language and explain the developmental stages to the children before they begin free play
C.Let the children play first and then ask them to name the developmental stage that their activity demonstrated
D.Remove the developmental theory from planning and offer popular games without a learning purpose
Explanation: Recontextualization reconstructs scholarly knowledge as teachable activity for particular learners. Developmental ideas should guide the design and mediation of play without becoming a university lecture for young children.
2In grado 3 matemáticas at a convenio school, geometry is taught only as naming cuadrado, triángulo, and círculo on a worksheet. Which redesign best respects the nature of school geometry?
A.Demonstrate the names and properties of each figure, then give a second worksheet that asks students to recall both
B.Have students trace and reproduce figures accurately before introducing any discussion of their properties
C.Have students compare, compose, and justify properties of shapes with objects and drawings, then name the relations they found
D.Begin with formal definitions of each figure and ask students to locate matching objects in the classroom
Explanation: School geometry develops spatial reasoning, comparison, and justification rather than only vocabulary or accurate copying. Comparing and composing shapes preserves that disciplinary practice while making it accessible in grado 3.
3In an intercultural sede of the Escuela Normal Superior, grado 5 students weave geometric patterns at home. The titular says weaving is folklore and mathematics is the textbook chapter on angles. Which design best recontextualizes the discipline without treating either source as decoration?
A.Teach the textbook angle sequence first and use weaving as an optional cultural extension after the assessed mathematics is complete
B.Organize the whole unit around weaving and avoid school mathematical terms so the community practice remains unaltered
C.Ask students to analyze pattern, symmetry, and angle in their weaving and express the same relations with school mathematical language
D.Display several patterns, ask students to reproduce them accurately, and retain the textbook exercises for the analysis of angles
Explanation: Recontextualization connects the discipline's ways of knowing with students' cultural practices. Analyzing the patterns and expressing their relations mathematically treats weaving as intellectual work and school mathematics as a language for that work.
4A rural multigrado ciencias naturales class receives a university soil-chemistry protocol requiring reagents the sede does not have. How should the normalista recontextualize the investigation of soil?
A.Design comparisons with local soil, water, and crops in which students record evidence and revise claims using school scientific language
B.Adapt the protocol into a teacher demonstration with substitute materials while students copy the observations into a common table
C.Invite students to describe local soil and crop practices orally without requiring records, comparisons, or claims
D.Teach definitions and local crop facts before a written quiz, postponing investigation until laboratory materials are available
Explanation: Natural science involves producing and testing claims with evidence. Local comparisons preserve that disciplinary character with available materials; recontextualization changes the means without replacing inquiry with observation by proxy or recall.
5A normalista writes the class objective as: Keep the children busy until break. What is the main problem for planning teaching?
A.It needs observable behavior indicators because sustained engagement can serve as the learning objective for any lesson
B.It should name a concrete product, such as completing a worksheet, so the teacher can verify that the time was used
C.It should specify how long students will work independently because duration makes a classroom-management goal measurable
D.It names management rather than student learning, so it cannot align teaching, learning, and evaluation
Explanation: A teaching objective identifies what students should learn so that strategies and evaluation can align with it. Keeping students busy may describe a management intention, but it does not specify the learning to be developed.
6A convenio school's malla follows a publisher's textbook order, while its PEI organizes primaria around community projects. The normalista must plan a ciencias unit. What is the soundest curricular move?
A.Use the textbook sequence because it is already organized, then add a community project after the assessed chapters
B.Let the PEI project determine the entire sequence and address ciencias ideas whenever they arise during the project
C.Follow the national ciencias progression and omit the PEI from the sequence, using local examples only during explanation
D.Build a ciencias learning progression inside a PEI community project, using the textbook as one resource rather than as the malla
Explanation: A malla should organize disciplinary learning over time while responding to the institutional context. The PEI can provide the project setting, but neither a publisher's order nor a broad project theme should replace deliberate ciencias progression.
7A rural aula serves grados 1, 3, and 5 in the same morning. The previous malla listed three disconnected weekly topics that never meet. How should the normalista design sequences for this multigrado?
A.Use a shared problem, such as measuring the school garden, with differentiated demands and supports for each grado
B.Teach the same broad topic in three separate blocks, using a complete grade-specific lesson while the other groups work independently
C.Use the grado 3 plan with simpler prompts for grado 1 and extension questions for grado 5
D.Rotate the teacher's main attention among grades each week while the other two review their most recent independent work
Explanation: A shared problem with grade-appropriate demands creates one coherent multigrado sequence without erasing progression. It coordinates teacher attention and peer activity more deliberately than three isolated plans or one middle-grade plan stretched in both directions.
8A primaria team stacks all DBA statements, all EBC statements, and all PEI priorities in parallel malla columns, with no decisions about order or emphasis. What design move actually organizes a sequence?
A.Distribute the three lists evenly across the four periods so every referent receives the same amount of instructional time
B.Select a coherent progression of annual learning goals and use the DBA, EBC, and PEI to justify the choices
C.Adopt the publisher's sequence first and annotate each unit afterward with the referent it most closely resembles
D.Teach only the goals that appear in all three sources so the malla contains no tension among the referents
Explanation: Referents inform curricular decisions; they do not become a sequence merely by appearing in columns. The team must select and order teachable goals, then show how the referents support that progression.
9Several grado 2 students in a coffee-growing vereda already help weigh harvested sacks with their families. How should that experience enter a quantities unit?
A.Introduce standard mass units abstractly first and use the family weighing experience only after students master the notation
B.Ask the teacher to describe a typical weighing routine so the context is included without relying on students' different experiences
C.Invite students to compare family weighing strategies with school representations of mass and solve related problems
D.Shift the unit toward shop prices because money problems use the same family context and are easier to reproduce in a worksheet
Explanation: The official Enseñar evidence asks teachers to relate students' practices and experiences to class development. Comparing family strategies with school representations turns lived measurement into material for conceptual and procedural learning.
10Which choice best illustrates a didactic device that serves teaching, learning, and evaluation in a grado 4 educación artística unit on local color?
A.A final-artwork rubric used by the teacher after the last studio session, with scores returned at the end of the period
B.A process portfolio of sketches, palette trials, a short justification, and criteria-based comments used in the next studio session
C.A daily peer response in which classmates identify the most creative work without using agreed criteria
D.An artist statement and a final color-theory quiz, with preliminary sketches excluded from the assessment
Explanation: A process portfolio links teaching, learning, and evaluation because it makes development visible and returns criterion-based information in time for the next act of making. The other devices assess only a final product, use unstructured judgment, or omit the process.

About the Saber TyT ENS Educación Exam

The ICFES modules Enseñar, Formar and Evaluar are the Saber TyT specific-competency modules for students of Escuelas Normales Superiores. Saber TyT is a separately named Examen de Estado de la Calidad de la Educación Superior under Ley 1324 de 2009, with its own target population and 0–200 reporting scale, distinct from Saber Pro (0–300). ICFES's 2026-2 Saber TyT combinatoria table assigns combinatoria 41 (Enseñar, Formar, Evaluar) to Normales superiores. ICFES states that the module documentation is shared from Saber Pro and also applies to Saber TyT; shared guides do not make the two examinations the same sitting. Resolución ICFES 675 de 2019 art. 39 says ENS students register only through their Normal Superior and that Saber TyT is not a graduation requirement for the programa de formación complementaria. 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. 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 practice for the generic session's open Comunicación Escrita task.

Assessment

Saber TyT session 1 (all candidates): five generic modules in 4 hours 40 minutes, including an open Comunicación Escrita task. For Escuelas Normales Superiores, ICFES's 2026-2 combinatoria table assigns combinatoria 41 (Enseñar, Formar and Evaluar) or combinatoria 0 (generics only); the current schedule describes electronic delivery. ICFES states that Enseñar, Formar and Evaluar documentation is shared from Saber Pro and also applies to Saber TyT. Shared module content does not merge the two exam identities: Saber TyT reports 0–200; Saber Pro reports 0–300.

Time Limit

Generic session: 4 hours 40 minutes. A verified duration for the three-module ENS specific session is not published in the reviewed ICFES materials: the TyT combinatoria table lists 1 hour 30 minutes for a specific-module session in the singular but gives no separate row for combinatoria 41. Follow the individual citación.

Passing Score

No pass/fail. Each Saber TyT module scored 0–200 without decimals and reported separately. These scores are not averaged into the Puntaje Global.

Exam Fee

No separate ENS or combinatoria 41 fee is published. Resolución 000629 of 11 November 2025 lists 2026 Saber Pro/TyT rates for public and private IES and individual graduates but does not name Escuela Normal Superior students; confirm the charged amount through the Normal Superior. (ICFES (Instituto Colombiano para la Evaluación de la Educación))

Saber TyT ENS 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 sistematización 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 TyT ENS Educación Exam

What You Need to Know

  • Passing score: No pass/fail. Each Saber TyT module scored 0–200 without decimals and reported separately. These scores are not averaged into the Puntaje Global.
  • Assessment: Saber TyT session 1 (all candidates): five generic modules in 4 hours 40 minutes, including an open Comunicación Escrita task. For Escuelas Normales Superiores, ICFES's 2026-2 combinatoria table assigns combinatoria 41 (Enseñar, Formar and Evaluar) or combinatoria 0 (generics only); the current schedule describes electronic delivery. ICFES states that Enseñar, Formar and Evaluar documentation is shared from Saber Pro and also applies to Saber TyT. Shared module content does not merge the two exam identities: Saber TyT reports 0–200; Saber Pro reports 0–300.
  • Time limit: Generic session: 4 hours 40 minutes. A verified duration for the three-module ENS specific session is not published in the reviewed ICFES materials: the TyT combinatoria table lists 1 hour 30 minutes for a specific-module session in the singular but gives no separate row for combinatoria 41. Follow the individual citación.
  • Exam fee: No separate ENS or combinatoria 41 fee is published. Resolución 000629 of 11 November 2025 lists 2026 Saber Pro/TyT rates for public and private IES and individual graduates but does not name Escuela Normal Superior students; confirm the charged amount through the Normal Superior.

Keys to Passing

  • Work through all 36 available questions
  • Review every answer and explanation
  • Track weak areas and revisit them
  • Use our AI tutor for tough concepts

Saber TyT ENS 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).
4Set items in Normal Superior and práctica pedagógica in preescolar, básica and media — not in a university licenciatura classroom.
5These MCQs are an English study aid. Practise also with ICFES's Spanish cuadernillos, and write a timed argumentative text for Comunicación Escrita, which this bank does not replace.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is ICFES Saber TyT Enseñar, Formar y Evaluar?

They are the three specific-competency modules of Colombia's Saber TyT Examen de Estado assigned as combinatoria 41 to Escuelas Normales Superiores. When that combinatoria is assigned, candidates sit 50 Spanish single-answer multiple-choice items in each module.

Is this the same exam as Saber Pro Enseñar, Formar y Evaluar?

No. ICFES shares the Enseñar, Formar and Evaluar module documentation between the two sittings, but Saber TyT is a separately named examination for a different population with a 0–200 reporting scale. Saber Pro uses 0–300. Shared guides do not make the identities duplicates.

Is this the same as the generic Saber TyT bank?

No. The generic Saber TyT sitting (Lectura Crítica, Razonamiento Cuantitativo, Competencias Ciudadanas, Comunicación Escrita, and Inglés) is a separate 4-hour-40-minute session and makes the Puntaje Global. These three modules are the ENS-specific sitting and are scored separately 0–200.

Must Escuela Normal Superior students sit Saber TyT to graduate?

No. Resolución ICFES 675 de 2019 art. 39 says ENS students register only through their Normal Superior and that Saber TyT is not a graduation requirement for the programa de formación complementaria. Inscription supports quality evaluation of the public education service.

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. The generic session is 4 hours 40 minutes and includes an open Comunicación Escrita task. The reviewed ICFES materials do not publish a verified duration for the three-module ENS specific session; follow the individual citación.

How are the modules scored?

There is no pass/fail cut. Each Saber TyT module is scored 0–200 without decimals and reported separately. Those scores are not averaged into the Puntaje Global.

How much does it cost?

ICFES does not publish a separate ENS or combinatoria 41 fee. The 2026 Saber Pro/TyT schedule lists categories for public and private IES and individual graduates but does not name Escuela Normal Superior students, so candidates should confirm the charged amount through their Normal Superior.

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, and the generic session includes an open writing task. This bank is an English-language four-option MCQ study adaptation of the official afirmaciones, not an official translation, not a Spanish-booklet simulation, and not practice for Comunicación Escrita.