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These free table of specifications templates give you 3 designs as Word documents on long bond (13 x 8.5 in) and A4 landscape: a TOS with the six levels of the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy, a 60-30-10 TOS and a simple TOS, each in colour and in black and white. Every template is human-made by a teacher: I’m Patrick Elliott, a teacher and Inclusion Lead, and I designed and built each one myself in Microsoft Word, then printed them to check they line up and fill the page as they should.

In this guide, you’ll find what a TOS is, how to work out the weight and number of items, and how to make the totals update in Word.

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What’s in the Table of Specifications (TOS) Templates, With Automatic Totals

Paper	Template	Best for
Long bond (8.5 x 13)	Table of Specifications, Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy	Days, weight, items and the six cognitive levels, with totals
Long bond (8.5 x 13)	Table of Specifications, 60-30-10	Easy, average and difficult items, with totals
Long bond (8.5 x 13)	Table of Specifications, Simple	Days, weight, items, test type and item placement
A4	Table of Specifications, Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy	Days, weight, items and the six cognitive levels, with totals
A4	Table of Specifications, 60-30-10	Easy, average and difficult items, with totals
A4	Table of Specifications, Simple	Days, weight, items, test type and item placement

👉 Type your competencies and numbers in the rows, then press Ctrl + A and F9: the Total row adds up every column for you.

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What Is a Table of Specifications?

A table of specifications (TOS) is the plan for a test. It lists the learning competencies you taught, how many days you spent on each, and from that, how many test items each competency gets and at which thinking level, so the test matches what you taught. The usual layout has the competency, the number of days, the weight in percent, the number of items, the cognitive levels (Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating and Creating) and the item placement. Many schools also use a 60-30-10 split of easy, average and difficult items. Check what your school or division asks for. They are independent templates from Word Made Easy, not official DepEd documents, so they carry no DepEd seal: add your school’s name and logo if your division asks for them.

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Which TOS Template Should You Use?

• Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy: a column for each of the six cognitive levels (R, U, Ap, An, E, C).
• 60-30-10: easy (60%: remembering and understanding), average (30%: applying and analyzing) and difficult (10%: evaluating and creating).
• Simple: competency, days, weight, items, type of test and item placement, for quizzes and short tests.
• Then lay out the test itself with the test paper templates.

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How to Make a Table of Specifications

1. Write each learning competency in its own row, and the number of days you taught it.
2. Add up the days. For each competency, weight (%) = its days ÷ the total days × 100.
3. Decide the total number of items, for example 50. For each competency, items = weight × total items ÷ 100. Round so the items add up to your total.
4. Share each competency’s items across the cognitive levels or the easy, average and difficult columns.
5. Write the item numbers in Item Placement, for example 1-5. Then press Ctrl + A and F9 to update the totals.

The weight column should total 100 and the items column your total number of items. If they don’t, adjust the rounding on the competency with the most days. Totals also update when you print.

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Black and White Versions

Every template on this page also comes in a black and white version with the same layout: grey headings and an outlined title, so it prints clearly on any printer and saves ink. In the download box, choose Long bond or A4 for the colour files, Black and white for the black and white files on both papers, or Everything for all of them.

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How to Print at the Right Size

1. Open the template in Word and press Ctrl + P (Cmd + P on a Mac).
2. Choose the paper size in the file name: long bond (8.5 x 13 in) or A4.
3. Set scaling to 100% or Actual size, not Fit to page.
4. Print one sheet and measure a row with a ruler before you print a class set.

Every sheet keeps a 1/2 inch (12.7 mm) margin on all sides, so nothing is cut off on home inkjets, school laser printers or older printers with a wide edge.

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FAQs

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Conclusion

These TOS templates make test planning quick and accurate, with totals Word works out for you, human-made by a teacher.

Choose your paper size above, download the ZIP, and to lay out the questions, use the test paper templates.

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