2023 MCAS Sample Student Work and Scoring Guides

High School Biology

• Question 16: Heredity

• Question 20: Molecules to Organisms

• Question 21: Evolution

• Question 37: Ecology

• Question 42: Molecules to Organisms

Notes:

1. The sample responses provided here are selections of actual student work from the MCAS tests administered in 2023. In order to protect the privacy of individual students, all names and references of a personal nature have been altered or removed. Aside from these changes, the responses appear as the students wrote them.

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Last Updated: July 27, 2023