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Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System

2003 MCAS Sample Student Work and Scoring Guides

Grade 10 English Language Arts

Question 8: Reading and Literature
Question 18: Reading and Literature
Question 26: Reading and Literature
Question 34: Reading and Literature

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Information on how these questions were scored
Grade 10 English Language Arts of the Release of Spring 2003 Test Items

NOTE: The sample responses provided here are selections of actual student work from the MCAS administered in Spring 2003. In order to protect individual students' privacy, all names and references of a personal nature have been altered or removed. The responses have been recopied exactly as the student wrote them.

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last updated: May 15, 2003
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