Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System

Practice Test

Mathematics

GRADE 7

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This is a practice test. Your responses to practice test questions must be recorded on your 
Practice Test Answer Document. 

Mark only one answer for each multiple-choice question. If you are not sure of the answer, choose the answer you think is best.

HOW TO ANSWER
OPEN-RESPONSE QUESTIONS

• Read all parts of each question carefully.

• Make each response as clear, complete, and accurate as you can.

• Check your answers.

Mathematics
DIRECTIONS

This practice test contains one multiple-choice question, one short-answer question, and one open-response question. Mark your answers to these questions in the spaces provided on pages 4 and 5 of your Practice Test Answer Document.

1. At 7:00 a.m., the temperature was [negative six degrees Farenheit]. The temperature was 8°F higher at noon. 
Which of the following expressions can be used to calculate the temperature at noon?

A. [negative six plus eight]

B. [negative six minus eight]

C. [eight plus six]

D. [eight minus negative six]

Question 2 is a short-answer question. Write your answer to this question in the box provided on page 4 of your Practice Test Answer Document. Do not write your answer on any other page. You may do your figuring on any other page.


2. What value of x makes the equation below true?

[five x minus one equals nineteen]


Question 3 is an open-response question. 

• BE SURE TO ANSWER AND LABEL ALL PARTS OF THE QUESTION.

• Show all your work (diagrams, tables, or computations) in your Practice Test Answer Document.

• If you do the work in your head, explain in writing how you did the work.

Write your answer to question 3 in the space provided on page 5 of your Practice Test Answer Document.

3. Copy the x-axis and y-axis shown below onto the grid in your Practice Test Answer Document.

[A seven by seven grid with x and y axes with each axis labeled one to six.]

a. Plot and label point P(4, 6) and point Q(4, 2) on your grid.

b. Line segment PQ is one side of a rectangle. On your grid, draw rectangle PQRS with a length of 4 units and a width of 2 units.

• Label point R and point S.

• Write the coordinates of point R and point S.

c. On your grid, draw the two diagonals of rectangle PQRS. What are the coordinates of the point where the two diagonals intersect?



MASSACHUSETTS COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM
Grade 7 Mathematics
Practice Test Answer Document
School Name:
District Name:
Last Name of Student:
First Name of Student:
Marking Instructions
•Use a No. 2 pencil only.
•Do not use ink, ballpoint, or felt tip pens.
•Make solid marks that fill the circles completely.
•Erase cleanly any marks you wish to change.
•Make no stray marks on this form.
•Do not fold, tear, or mutilate this form.

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DO NOT WRITE
IN SHADED AREA 

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