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Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System

2018 MCAS Sample Student Work and Scoring Guides

High School Biology

Question 12: Evolution and Biodiversity

Question 23: Anatomy and Physiology

Question 32: Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Question 44: Ecology

Question 45: Genetics

Notes:

The sample responses provided here are selections of actual student work from the MCAS tests administered in 2018. 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: March 11, 2024

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