Pass the Praxis 5165 exam — or get every dollar back. Guaranteed.

The full Fast Track Study System — every practice question, every flashcard deck, full-length mock exams, narrated audio, Miles the AI tutor, and the entire study guide, every chapter readable and highlightable. The cheat sheet — the highest-yield facts as a PDF — is in the study portal on every pass, with instant access to download it. Every pass opens all of it; Standard carries the Money-Back Guarantee and SurePass the SurePass Guarantee.

Your state decides, and that is the part people get wrong about this test. ETS writes and scores 5165 and reports it on a 100-200 scale, but in ETS's own words: "Passing scores are not set by ETS, and they vary by state." Read off ETS's own state-requirements pages in September 2026, the published qualifying scores for 5165 run from 143 in Arkansas to 160 in Wyoming across 39 jurisdictions — and Kansas lists the test with no number at all. So two candidates can sit the same paper on the same morning and need different scores, which is exactly why you will not find a single number quoted on this page as though it were yours. Look yours up before you book; ETS publishes it. What you do get is a verdict. Your official ETS score report shows your score beside the score your state requires and states whether you passed — so pass and fail are real words on this test, they are just your state's line rather than a national one. The 85% our own mocks are marked against is ours, not ETS's, and it is also the score that qualifies you for the guarantee.

Standard and SurePass carry it. Score 85%+ on one full-length mock, sit the real exam, and if you don't pass we refund what you paid. On SurePass, clear two mocks with your readiness meter at "Getting close" or above and we also pay your full $130 retake fee. A refund also comes with free access to keep preparing — 90 more days on Standard, another year on SurePass. Starter carries no refund — don't pass, upload your score report, and we add 30 more days of access, free. Every free period is counted from the earliest date your exam allows a retake. You file the claim in your study portal with your official score report.

Four scored full-length sittings, each a brand-new 66-question paper built to ETS's four content categories in the shares ETS prints — 30% Number & Quantity and Algebra, 30% Functions and Calculus, 20% Geometry, 20% Statistics & Probability — and timed to the real 180 minutes. Practice questions and timed practice are unlimited and never use one. Worth knowing what you are comparing that to. ETS sells one official practice form for 5165 and says on its own product page that retaking or repurchasing it "does not give you different practice questions or change the order in which the questions are delivered" — and every registrant already gets one copy of it free.

Hard enough that ETS's own numbers say so, and we are not going to dress that up with a pass rate nobody publishes. ETS publishes none for this test — it cannot, because it does not own the pass/fail decision — so you will not find one here or a figure dressed up to look like one. What ETS does publish, in its own Praxis Technical Manual, is how 5165 scores are actually spread: across 12,574 test takers between August 2022 and July 2025, all of them college seniors or above, the median was 168 and the middle half of them landed between 150 and 185. ETS's own note on that range is that it "provides an indication of the difficulty of the test". The part that matters is the width. A 35-point middle half and a standard deviation of 24.8 make 5165 the most widely spread Praxis title with more than 10,000 takers — the English Language Arts test's middle half is 16 points wide. Scores on this test are further apart than on any other big Praxis exam, which is another way of saying that on this one, preparation moves you further than it does anywhere else in the Praxis catalog.

Two things to settle before you buy anything on this exam, from us or from anyone, and both take one click. First: not every state uses Praxis at all. Texas runs TExES, California CSET, Georgia GACE, Massachusetts MTEL and Washington its own tests, and none of them lists 5165 — thirty-nine jurisdictions do. Second: "Praxis math" is sold under several codes and only one of them is this test. 5165 is the secondary mathematics content test. 5161 is its predecessor and ETS's own page for it returns a 404 today, though some sellers still stock guides for it. 5164 is the middle-school test, a different blueprint and a different paper. ETS publishes what each state requires on its own state-requirements pages, so check the code rather than the word "math", then buy for that code. Everything here — the questions, the guide, the mocks and the guarantee — is built for 5165.

SurePass, for almost everyone: today it costs the same as Standard, it runs a full year, and it is the only pass that pays your retake fee if you don't pass (and adds another year free). Standard is a month of access with the Money-Back Guarantee — a refund plus 90 more days if you don't pass. Starter is one week of access with no refund — don't pass and you get 30 more days free.

ETS charges $130 to sit 5165, plus a 3% online service fee on anything you buy through its site. There is no discounted resit — a second attempt is a fresh registration at the same price — and the timing is the part that bites: at least 28 days between test dates, and ETS cancels the scores and keeps the fee if you sit sooner. Two things soften it, and both are ETS's, not ours. Its Free After 3 program gives unlimited free retakes once you have completed three attempts on the same test, for five years, so the bill is not open-ended. And its fee waiver covers one Praxis Subject Assessment a year for an enrolled student on financial aid with an EFC at or under $3,000, first come first served. Ask your program too — ETS sells institutions bulk vouchers for both the test and its own prep, valid two years, so plenty of candidates never pay this themselves. Where the SurePass Guarantee comes in is the resit you do pay for: it pays your full $130 retake fee, in full, which nothing else on this exam does at any price.

Close, and here is exactly how. Every item is a four-option selected-response question written to ETS's four content categories and weighted the way ETS weights them, with one key and a reason given for every option — including why each wrong one is wrong, which is where the learning actually happens on a mathematics test. Each key was recomputed from the question itself before its explanation was read. The real 5165 is selected-response all the way through, so there is no format we are quietly leaving out, and ETS gives you an on-screen graphing calculator for the whole test — our mocks assume you have one and run the same 180-minute clock, because a three-hour paper answered under a two-hour habit is a different exam.

Worth having, and worth knowing exactly what each one is. The Study Companion for 5165 is a free PDF carrying the full content outline and keyed sample questions. When you register for the test you also get one official interactive practice form free, and ETS sells further copies at $24.95 — with ETS's own caveat on the product page that repurchasing the same practice test "does not give you different practice questions or change the order in which the questions are delivered". Its Prep eBook is $45 for 206 pages that, in ETS's words, "cannot be printed or copied", and its QuizStack is $45 for 235 questions with six months' access. Bought separately those three come to $114.95, which is the ceiling this market reaches without leaving the authority's own checkout; ETS also resells a four-month Study.com course at $190 and bundles the test with prep from $162.75 to $344. They come from the body that writes the exam, which is something we cannot claim, and they are fixed papers with a clock on two of the three. What none of them does at any price is refund you or pay a dollar of $130 when you have to sit again. Prices move and ETS runs seasonal offers, so check them yourself before you buy.

Your account stays and your work stays with it — notes, highlights and flashcard history are all there if you come back. The paid features stop. You can upgrade at any time and pick up exactly where you left off, and an upgrade always credits what you already paid.

Yes. Change the date and the Game Plan rebuilds around the new one — it works backwards from your date, so a move forward compresses it and a move back spreads it out. Nothing is lost.

Yes to both. Add it to your home screen and it behaves like an app. Your due flashcards and a set of practice questions download automatically, and the whole study guide downloads too, narrated audio included — so a bus ride with no signal is still study time. Scored mocks and the tutor wait for a connection.

Yes, separately from the pass guarantee: 24 hours on Starter, 48 hours on Standard, or 72 hours on SurePass, measured from your purchase (or from your upgrade, if you upgraded) — no questions asked, as long as you haven't sat your exam yet. EEA and UK buyers also keep their 14-day statutory right. The SurePass Guarantee is the other promise — that one is about your exam result, not about changing your mind.

Because we honor them. Every guarantee is a real financial commitment we may genuinely pay out, so a limited number opens for this exam each day. The allocation resets at midnight in your own time zone, and the counter shows how many of today's are still open.