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Hawaii Alternate Assessment Practice Test

Build confidence with five focused 10-question practice sets for accessible reading, mathematics, science, data, communication, and everyday academic applications.

Hawaii Alternate Assessment practice sets

This Hawaii Alternate Assessment Practice Test page provides five short practice sets with 10 original multiple-choice questions each. The sets use clear directions and familiar situations to review reading, mathematics, science, data, communication, and everyday academic applications.

Skill areas covered

  • Reading directions, identifying main ideas, making inferences, using vocabulary, recognizing opinions, sequencing events, and finding evidence
  • Adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, comparing numbers, using fractions, telling time, measuring, identifying shapes, and recognizing patterns
  • Observing living things, matter, magnets, light, shadows, heat, forces, weather, plants, and simple investigations
  • Reading charts, schedules, maps, graphs, time information, equal groups, safety directions, and practical measurement situations
  • Connecting reading, mathematics, science, communication, evidence, and review strategies in short accessible tasks

How to use this page

Complete one 10-question set at a time. Read each direction carefully, use visual or written information, allow appropriate accessibility supports, and review the explanation after answering.

This is supplemental State Test Practice, State Assessment Practice, and Standardized Test Practice for Hawaii alternate assessment preparation. It is not an official assessment and does not reproduce secure test content. Assessment names, participation rules, formats, accommodations, and procedures can change, so check current Hawaii Department of Education guidance before test day.

Review the official Hawaii Department of Education testing information for current assessment guidance.

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Hawaii Alternate Assessment Practice Questions

A 10-question Hawaii Alternate Assessment practice set on science and observation, with answers and explanations.

Read or listen to each short task carefully, use the information given, choose the best answer, and review the explanation after responding.

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Unanswered 10
1. QuestionMultiple choice

Which object is living?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is A plant.

  1. Identify the task: Read the short passage, number sentence, science situation, or daily-life problem and identify what it asks you to find.
  2. Use the information given: A plant is a living organism, while the other choices are nonliving objects or matter.
  3. Check the answer: Confirm that the choice matches the information and the accessible academic skill in this Hawaii Alternate Assessment practice task.

A plant is a living organism, while the other choices are nonliving objects or matter.

2. QuestionMultiple choice

What does a plant need from sunlight?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is Light energy.

  1. Identify the task: Read the short passage, number sentence, science situation, or daily-life problem and identify what it asks you to find.
  2. Use the information given: Plants use light energy to help make food.
  3. Check the answer: Confirm that the choice matches the information and the accessible academic skill in this Hawaii Alternate Assessment practice task.

Plants use light energy to help make food.

3. QuestionMultiple choice

Ice changes into liquid water when it is warmed. What is this change called?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: C

The correct answer is Melting.

  1. Identify the task: Read the short passage, number sentence, science situation, or daily-life problem and identify what it asks you to find.
  2. Use the information given: Melting is the change from a solid to a liquid caused by added thermal energy.
  3. Check the answer: Confirm that the choice matches the information and the accessible academic skill in this Hawaii Alternate Assessment practice task.

Melting is the change from a solid to a liquid caused by added thermal energy.

4. QuestionMultiple choice

Which material is attracted to a magnet?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: D

The correct answer is Iron.

  1. Identify the task: Read the short passage, number sentence, science situation, or daily-life problem and identify what it asks you to find.
  2. Use the information given: Iron is a magnetic material that can be attracted to a magnet.
  3. Check the answer: Confirm that the choice matches the information and the accessible academic skill in this Hawaii Alternate Assessment practice task.

Iron is a magnetic material that can be attracted to a magnet.

5. QuestionMultiple choice

A shadow appears when a person stands between a light and a wall. Why?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is The person blocks some light..

  1. Identify the task: Read the short passage, number sentence, science situation, or daily-life problem and identify what it asks you to find.
  2. Use the information given: An opaque object blocks light and creates a darker region called a shadow.
  3. Check the answer: Confirm that the choice matches the information and the accessible academic skill in this Hawaii Alternate Assessment practice task.

An opaque object blocks light and creates a darker region called a shadow.

6. QuestionMultiple choice

What happens to water vapor when it cools and forms cloud droplets?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is Condensation occurs..

  1. Identify the task: Read the short passage, number sentence, science situation, or daily-life problem and identify what it asks you to find.
  2. Use the information given: Cooling water vapor can change it into liquid droplets through condensation.
  3. Check the answer: Confirm that the choice matches the information and the accessible academic skill in this Hawaii Alternate Assessment practice task.

Cooling water vapor can change it into liquid droplets through condensation.

7. QuestionMultiple choice

In a food chain, what is grass?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: C

The correct answer is A producer.

  1. Identify the task: Read the short passage, number sentence, science situation, or daily-life problem and identify what it asks you to find.
  2. Use the information given: Grass makes its own food using sunlight, so it is a producer.
  3. Check the answer: Confirm that the choice matches the information and the accessible academic skill in this Hawaii Alternate Assessment practice task.

Grass makes its own food using sunlight, so it is a producer.

8. QuestionMultiple choice

Which observation shows that a force moved an object?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: D

The correct answer is A ball rolls after it is pushed..

  1. Identify the task: Read the short passage, number sentence, science situation, or daily-life problem and identify what it asks you to find.
  2. Use the information given: The ball changing from rest to motion shows that a push applied a force.
  3. Check the answer: Confirm that the choice matches the information and the accessible academic skill in this Hawaii Alternate Assessment practice task.

The ball changing from rest to motion shows that a push applied a force.

9. QuestionMultiple choice

Which tool is best for measuring temperature?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is A thermometer.

  1. Identify the task: Read the short passage, number sentence, science situation, or daily-life problem and identify what it asks you to find.
  2. Use the information given: A thermometer measures temperature.
  3. Check the answer: Confirm that the choice matches the information and the accessible academic skill in this Hawaii Alternate Assessment practice task.

A thermometer measures temperature.

10. QuestionMultiple choice

A student observes a plant each day and records its height. What is the student collecting?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is Data.

  1. Identify the task: Read the short passage, number sentence, science situation, or daily-life problem and identify what it asks you to find.
  2. Use the information given: Recorded observations and measurements are data that can be organized and compared.
  3. Check the answer: Confirm that the choice matches the information and the accessible academic skill in this Hawaii Alternate Assessment practice task.

Recorded observations and measurements are data that can be organized and compared.

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Frequently asked questions about Hawaii Alternate Assessment Practice

What skills are covered?

The page covers accessible reading, communication, mathematics, science, data, measurement, directions, safety, and everyday academic applications.

How many questions are included?

There are five practice sets with 10 questions each, for 50 questions in total. Each set can be completed separately.

Are these official Hawaii alternate assessment questions?

No. These are original supplemental practice questions and do not reproduce secure assessment content. Check the Hawaii Department of Education for current participation rules, standards, accommodations, and procedures.