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<div style="background:#eef3fb;color:#303846;border:1px solid #c9d7ee;border-radius:12px;padding:14px 18px;margin:0 0 18px"><p style="margin:0;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6"><strong style="color:#171d29">Checked September 30, 2026.</strong> Medium. The format dates from the October 2025 overhaul and the practice-test page carries a date of Feb 18, 2026. The State Department changed the selection process again in April 2026 without changing the FSOT format; re-check the practice-test page before each window.</p></div>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7"><strong>Since October 2025 the FSOT has three multiple-choice parts and no essay.</strong> The State Department's official practice test, which "simulates the length and the questions of the new test", times them as Job Knowledge, 50 questions in 35 minutes; English, 45 questions in 35 minutes; and Logical Reasoning, 30 questions in 45 minutes. That is 125 questions in 115 minutes by our addition; no official page prints those totals. There is no penalty for guessing. ProSyllabus is an independent study site. It is not affiliated with the US Department of State, its Board of Examiners or Pearson VUE, and nothing here is official. Every rule is quoted or summarised from State Department, Pearson VUE and Federal Register pages, and the Department decides every candidacy.</p>

<div style="display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:10px;margin:18px 0"><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">3 parts</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">Job Knowledge, English Usage and Comprehension, Logical Reasoning</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">125 questions</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">our total of the practice test's 50 + 45 + 30</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">115 minutes</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">our total of 35 + 35 + 45 minutes</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">No essay</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">"There is no longer a written essay" (careers.state.gov)</div></div></div><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;margin:-8px 0 18px">Official practice test and its instructions page (modified Feb 18, 2026). Totals are our arithmetic.</p>

<div style="background:#fff8e8;color:#3a3020;border:1px solid #f0d9a8;border-left:4px solid #b7791f;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><p style="margin:0 0 8px;font-size:12px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#b7791f">Where other pages get this wrong</p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29;line-height:1.5">The FSOT has three parts now, not four. Situational Judgment and the Written Essay are gone, and Logical Reasoning is new.</p><p style="margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.6"><strong style="color:#8a5300">Commonly published instead:</strong> The four-section test (Job Knowledge, English Expression, Situational Judgment, Written Essay) that the State Department's own "Updated: March 2024" selection-process page and its FSOT Information Guide PDF still describe. ProSyllabus's exam record listed the old sections too, and is being corrected.</p><p style="margin:0;line-height:1.6">The practice-test instructions (modified Feb 18, 2026) say: "The Situational Judgment section has been replaced by a Logical Reasoning section" and "There is no longer a written essay." The State Department Media Note of Sep 5, 2025 announced the change for the Oct 18-25, 2025 sitting. The Information Guide PDF still on careers.state.gov is the 2016-17 guide.</p></div>

Counts and minutes are from the section headers of the official practice test. The State Department says the practice test simulates the length of the new test, but no official page states the live test's counts separately, so treat them as the best official guide rather than a guarantee.

<figure style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0;margin:18px 0"><figcaption style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Time per question on the practice test (seconds, our arithmetic)</figcaption><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">Part 1: Job Knowledge (50 Q in 35 min)</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">42 s</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:46.7%;height:12px;background:#1f7a45;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">Part 2: English Usage and Comprehension (45 Q in 35 min)</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">47 s</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:52.2%;height:12px;background:#2f6fb0;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">Part 3: Logical Reasoning (30 Q in 45 min)</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">90 s</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:100.0%;height:12px;background:#b7791f;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">Minutes x 60 / questions, rounded. Logical Reasoning gives about twice the time per question of the other two parts.</p></figure>

What each part covers, in the State Department's words

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7"><strong>A naming conflict you may notice.</strong> The instructions page calls Part 2 "English Usage and Comprehension"; the practice test's own header calls it "English Understanding and Comprehension". It is the same part. The State Department's April 1, 2026 fact sheet describes the overhaul as "adding questions on American history and logical reasoning while eliminating those intended to test alignment with the diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda", in its words.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Two features of the timing drive strategy. First, <strong>Job Knowledge and English run at well under a minute a question</strong> (about 42 and 47 seconds on our arithmetic), so a question you cannot answer should get a guess and a flag, not three minutes. Second, <strong>Logical Reasoning gives about 90 seconds a question</strong>, because each item asks you to read an argument and judge an inference, flaw or assumption. Because there is no penalty for guessing, no question should be left blank in any part.</p>

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Checkpoints without a review reserve, our arithmetic (question you should have reached by each minute, rounded down):

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">The practice test is free, online, and a Microsoft Form linked from careers.state.gov. The instructions say it "does not include an automatic timer. Candidates will be informed of the allotted time for each section and are encouraged to time themselves to mirror the conditions of the actual test." When you finish, "you will receive feedback on questions you answered correctly and questions you answered incorrectly". Only a total score is shown at the end, so count your correct answers per part yourself; the self-check tool in the scoring guide of this series does the arithmetic. Time each part separately with the minutes above, and sit all three in one go at least once: the real test runs about two hours of question time back to back.</p>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Preparation that follows from the official content list</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Job Knowledge: four areas only. US government, history and society; world history and geography; economics; math and statistics. The April 2026 fact sheet singles out American history.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">English: grammar and usage questions plus reading comprehension. Practise reading a passage once and answering from it, at under 50 seconds a question.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Logical Reasoning: inferences, justifying conclusions, logical flaws and assumptions. Practise naming the assumption an argument needs before looking at the options.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">No essay practice is needed for the FSOT itself. Writing is now tested at the next stage, the Written Exercise that opens the Foreign Service Officer Assessment; its length, prompts and scoring are not published.</li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">Content list: careers.state.gov practice-test instructions (Feb 18, 2026); April 1, 2026 fact sheet.</p></div>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Question counts and timings for the live test stated separately from the practice test.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">How the three parts are weighted in the final score; the regulation says only that the Board of Examiners sets the standards.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Any published list of topics within each Job Knowledge area beyond the four named areas.</li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">If the Department publishes a new test description, this guide will follow it.</p></div>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Nothing on this page is legal, immigration or career advice. Questions about your own case go to the State Department at FSOTQuestions@state.gov.</p>

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<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Sources</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://careers.state.gov/fso-practice-test-main-instructions/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">careers.state.gov — "Instructions to the Online Practice FSOT" (modified 18 Feb 2026; read 30 Sep 2026; returned "Page not found" on 19 Oct 2026, see the Wayback capture of 7 Oct 2026): the section contents since October 2025, no written essay, "no longer has a passing score", the later stages</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://forms.office.com/g/PJzzwr9Nib" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">State Department official online practice FSOT (Microsoft Form linked from the instructions page; read, not submitted): Part 1 Job Knowledge 50 questions / 35 minutes, Part 2 English Understanding and Comprehension 45 / 35, Part 3 Logical Reasoning 30 / 45; no penalty for guessing</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/09/foreign-service-officer-test-fsot-updates" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">US Department of State, Media Note "Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT) Updates" (5 Sep 2025): the revamped FSOT first given Oct 18-25, 2025; logic and reasoning added, situational judgement discontinued, Personal Narratives removed</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://careers.state.gov/foreign-service/foreign-service-officer/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">careers.state.gov — Foreign Service Officer page (modified 4 Sep 2026): the revamped FSOT and the five career tracks</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/04/u-s-department-of-state-announces-reforms-to-the-u-s-foreign-service-2" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">US Department of State, Fact Sheet "U.S. Department of State Announces Reforms to the U.S. Foreign Service" (1 Apr 2026): Written Examination replaces the Qualification Evaluation Panel; oral exam redesigned; A-100 reformed</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://www.pearsonvue.com/us/en/fsot.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Pearson VUE — Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT) page, "Last updated 2026-09-25" (re-read 30 Sep 2026, unchanged): eligibility, registration, the 12-month rule, testing windows for October 2026 and February 2027, OnVUE, no-show and ID rules, overseas and on-base testing</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://careers.state.gov/foreign-service/foreign-service-officer/fso-test-information-and-selection-process/fso-selection-process-text-version/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">careers.state.gov — "FSO Selection Process – Text Version" (modified 24 Feb 2026; its body says "Updated: March 2024", so its test format, Personal Narratives and QEP are out of date): Register, bump-up points, clearance, offers, training, the $72 no-show fee</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://careers.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FSOT-Information-Guide-2.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">careers.state.gov — FSOT Information Guide PDF (file dated 9 Sep 2026 on the server, but its content is the 2016-17 guide describing the old four-part test)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-11" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">eCFR — 22 CFR Part 11, section 11.20 (Part 11 source note: 80 FR 64320, 23 Oct 2015; no later amendment found): citizenship and age, scoring, separate career-track registers, 18-month Register limit, candidates' travel costs</a></li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472"><strong style="color:#1f7a45">official</strong> = a document published by the conducting body. <strong style="color:#8a5300">reported</strong> = a news or coaching site we could not check against an original. Where sources disagree this page says so rather than picking one.</p></div>

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