Virginia Standards of Learning Assessments

Spring 2001 Released Tests
with Supplemental Information

In the following files you will find tests that students across the Commonwealth of Virginia took as part of the Spring 2001 Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) Assessments. The test questions are representative of the content and skills included in the Virginia SOL tests and are provided to help you understand the format of the test and test questions. The intent of this release of these tests is to provide parents and teachers additional information to accompany the Student Performance Report and/or the Parent Report.

The content areas for which the tests have been released are: English: Reading and Writing, Mathematics, and Science in grades 3, 5, and 8 and End-of-Course, and Computer/Technology in grades 5 and 8.  Please note that the images in all released tests may be smaller in size than on the actual tests.

Questions from the History and Social Science tests are not being released. The Standards of Learning in History and Social Science were amplified through the Teacher’s Resource Guide in 1999, and the tests were revised to match this new amplification. In 2001, new History and Social Science Standards of Learning were approved and the Teacher Resource Guide was replaced with a Curriculum Framework. These changes brought another alignment that again resulted in the removal of items from the history and social science section of the test bank. During these processes the test question bank had to be rebuilt, leaving a minimum number of questions available.

Each question on the SOL test is assigned to a Reporting Category. On the released tests with supplemental information, the Reporting Category for each question is identified as well as the SOL that contains the content of the question. The number of questions in each Reporting Category is established by the test Blueprint that is also available on this web site.

Grade Three (1,721K)

Grade Five (3,118K)

Grade Eight (1,260K)

EOC English: Reading/Literature and Research (205K)

EOC English: Writing (261K)

Algebra I (245K)

Geometry (291K)

Algebra II (335K)

Earth Science (662K)

Biology (638K)

Chemistry (370K)

© 2001 by the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Education, James Monroe Building, 101 N. 14th Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. All rights reserved. Except as permitted by law, this material may not be reproduced or used in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner. Commonwealth of Virginia public school educators may photocopy or print any portion of these released tests for educational purposes without requesting permission. All others should direct their request to the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Education at (804) 225-2102, Division of Assessment and Reporting.