2023 MCAS Sample Student Work and Scoring Guides

High School Introductory Physics

• Question 16: Waves

• Question 20: Motion, Forces, and Interactions

• Question 21: Energy

• Question 37: Motion, Forces, and Interactions

• Question 42: Motion, Forces, and Interactions

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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• All Released MCAS Test Questions

• Intro Physics Formula Sheet
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Last Updated: July 27, 2023