What is the Science PSSA Exam?
The annual Pennsylvania System School Assessment for Science is a standards-based, criterion-referenced assessment which provides students, parents, educators and citizens with an understanding of student and school performance related to the attainment of proficiency of the academic standards. These standards Science and Technology identify what a student should know and be able to do at varying grade levels.
Every Pennsylvania student in grades 4 and 8 is assessed in science.
The proposed exam is organized around
the following Four Reporting Categories that are will represent the following percentages of questions on the test.
50%
17%
17%
16%
Below are some resources to help you prepare to do your best on this year's exam.
Review Video Collections
Click Here or on the image above to go the Life Science
Helpful Video Page
Click Here or on the image above to go the Earth Science
Helpful Video Page
Review Presentation Slides
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Mr. Racchini's
PSSA
LIFE SCIENCE
REVIEW
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Mr. Racchini's
PSSA
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
REVIEW
Mr. Racchini's
PSSA
EARTH & SPACE REVIEW
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The three Reviews above work best as a PowerPoint presentation
PowerPoint in a web browser: PowerPoint Online is a free alternative that provides some of the same benefits of PowerPoint Viewer and can display some newer features (such as the Morph feature and animations added to PowerPoint after version 2010). If you have a Microsoft account (hotmail.com, outlook.com, live.com, msn.com, or Xbox) or you create a free account, you can view and edit a presentation for free in a web browser by saving the file to OneDrive or Dropbox and using PowerPoint Online to open it.
Click Here to go to the online Microsoft site to create an account or to log in.
Other Resources
Practice Tests
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Science PSSA Item and Scoring Samplers