MCAS Tips for Students and Parents

General Tips

 Skills to Succeed
Types of Questions Categories
Materials Allowed Ongoing Preparations
Sample Questions  

General Tips:

  • Scan the newspaper or internet to find new graphs you can analyze. Make sure you understand what the horizontal and vertical axes represent.
  • Do the math in the supermarket (unit price) and in situations with tax, discounts, etc.
  • Take the time to figure out what is really being asked.
  • Label what variables and number represent.
  • Write all of your work down.
  • Draw pictures or label/mark given diagrams.

Skills needed to succeed:

  • Reading with understanding
  • Strategies
  • Confidence/Perseverance

Types of Questions:

  • Multiple choice
  • Short answer
  • Open Response

Categories:

  • Number sense and operations
  • Patterns, relations and algebra
  • Geometry
  • Measurement
  • Data analysis, statistics, probability

Materials allowed:

  • Reference sheet will be given
  • No calculators allowed 

Ongoing Preparation for MCAS :

  • Curriculum alignment
  • Integration of MCAS questions into classroom
  • Parent involvement

Sample Questions:

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