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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The test isn’t content knowledge. It’s a reading, applying, and writing test. You have found all of the publically available practice. If you look at those you will see that there is information provided in the form of readings, charts, tables, and graphs, and then students have to make sense of it.

If you want to fill in content knowledge gaps, watch Crash Course Biology and the Amoeba Sisters on YouTube.[/quote]

This is accurate (science teacher here).  This test isn't about rote knowledge.  It's more focused on how well students can read scientific passages, pull evidence from that text, and apply it to a situation or question.  The goal is that they should have been prepared from previous classes to be comfortable finding answers on their own from text.  You can look at it as a snapshot of how well they can interpret data essentially; the 9th-grade test is life science-based as that's a science all students are required to take in high school.

If you haven't seen this yet, there are practice sets here.  Again, plan for a lot of reading.

https://itempra.org/public/coll-science-life-science-misa[/quote]

The full practice test is in a janky app.

The "Go Directly to an Individual Set" pages are better formatted for small screens [/quote]

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