2026 MCAS Sample Student Work and Scoring Guides

High School Biology

• Question 15: Evolution

• Question 19: Molecules to Organisms

• Question 20: Ecology

• Question 36: Heredity

• Question 41: Evolution

Notes:

1. The sample responses provided here are selections of actual student work from the MCAS tests administered in 2026. 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, 2026