Approximately 40% of the Science questions is in Physical Sciences. The following pages describe the Physical Sciences standards and provide sample items for each standard. The goal of this document is to describe the ideas that students need to understand so that teachers understand what they need to teach. The sample items (practice questions) in this document can be used with students since have already been released to the public.

We used the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and A Framework for K-12 Science Education for reference, since the HSE standards are based on NGSS standards with the same title.

Here are a few sample questions from the document linked above: