This included students with disabilities and limited English proficiency. The MCAS must report the performance of each student, school, and district. You must pass the MCAS in 10th grade in order to graduate from high school. All content area tests have multiple-choice questions. This is when students choose the best answer from four options.
Mathematic tests are the only tests that use short-answer questions.
These are the only tests that use short-answer questions. These are questions in which students reply briefly in a short statement of computation leading to a numeric solution. Open-response questions are used in all content areas. These are questions where the students writes a one or two paragraph response or create a chart, table, diagram, illustration, or graph, according to the question. Writing prompts are used in Language Arts tests only.