The NAEP Questions Tool provides easy access to NAEP questions, student responses, and scoring guides that are released to the public. Both national and state data, where appropriate, are presented.

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These questions are presented for the use of teachers, parents, students, and others as:

• examples of what NAEP asks students at 4th, 8th, and 12th grades,
• exemplars of questions that probe students’ knowledge of specific content area, and
• a way to compare one’s performance on a specific question to that of the students across the nation and in the state.

Since some questions must be kept secure for use in future NAEP assessments, only a small portion of each NAEP assessment is released. Consequently, the released questions in this tool do not represent complete coverage of the content, cognitive skills, and range of difficulty in the NAEP assessment for a particular subject area. Therefore, these questions will not serve as a practice test for future NAEP assessments. (more)

The table that follows contains the number of released questions in each assessment by subject, year, and grade. There are now 1,397 questions available in this tool, plus another 142 questions from the 1996 science assessment that are available in PDF.

Released Questions by Subject, Year, Grade

Year 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2001 2002 2003  Grade 4 8 12 4 8 12 4 8 12 4 8 12 4 8 12 4 8 12 4 8 12 4 8 12 4 8 12  Subject                                                        Civics                         30 37 38                          Geography             43 46 48                   31 49 33              U.S. History             47 50 53                   30 30 34              Mathematics  33 38 41 59 69 63       25 29 29                         59 67    Reading             11 19 10       10 8 15 9           12 10 8 21 19    Science                   40 51 51       31 45 38                    Writing                         3 4 4             3 3 3

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Last updated 20 April 2004 (SW)