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Frequently Asked Questions

The district has made a commitment to prepare students for future careers and higher education, which has helped students become familiar with reading text and solving problems on computers.

Because the assessments are online, students will use a set of basic computer skills, including keyboarding, drag and drop, and highlighting. These are skills that students are familiar with from technology and media instruction. 

View sample assessments:

Practice Tests

Tutorials

Additional Science Practice Tests

The New Jersey Student Learning Assessments-Adaptive (NJSLA-A) and New Jersey Graduation Proficiency Assessment-Adaptive (NJGPA-A) are New Jersey’s updated platform for measuring student learning, supporting instructional improvement, and meeting State and federal assessment requirements.

Students in the class of 2027 will take the New Jersey Graduation Proficiency Assessment-Adaptive (NJGPA-A) in grade 11. The assessment will be aligned to New Jersey Student Learning Standards (NJSLS) for grade 10 ELA and NJSLS for Algebra I and Geometry.

NJGPA-A ELA and Mathematics Resources: Practice Tests 

This page provides clarifications and updates regarding the graduation assessment requirements for the Class of 2026.   

Parents will receive an Individual Student Report (ISR) for each content area in which their child tested for all assessments. 

Parent Score Interpretation Guides and other useful information for parents about how to interpret their child's scores can be found on the New Jersey Assessments Resource Center page.

There is also a parent portal with online access to how their child performed on the assessments. The online portal includes the student’s scale score, level of performance, and a video explanation of the score report.  The video report communicates information from the ISR through animations and a voiceover in New Jersey’s top five languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, and Arabic.