The 2015-2016 Nova Scotia Assessment: Reading, Writing, and Mathematics in Grade 8 will be administered over 4-days between May 30 and June 3, 2016 for 90 minutes each day.

This assessment includes the following:

• reading and writing tasks that reflect grade 8 curriculum outcome expectations
• reading passages in the narrative, information, poetry/song, and visual text genres
• reading comprehension questions in selected response format
• reading comprehension questions that are designed to provide a broad range of challenge, thereby providing more information about individual student performance
• one essay writing task and one story writing task
• mathematics questions that reflect the end of grade 8 curriculum outcome expectations
• selected response (multiple choice) questions in all mathematics domains
• tasks designed to assess students’ ability to solve problems
• tasks requiring different levels of cognitive demands to solve, thereby providing more information about student performance

French immersion students will write the mathematics portion of this assessment in French.