• 52 questions

Grade 8 Math PARCC Practice Test

Eighth grade math by the four sub-claims of the PARCC blueprint, each question marked calculator or non-calculator.

Which expression is equivalent to (2³)² × 2⁻⁴?

Pick an answer, then press Check answer. Then you see Correct or Not quite, with the reason. Keys: A to D pick, Enter checks.

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The real test: PARCC math, grade 8

Task types
Type I: concepts, skills and procedures, machine scored. Type II: mathematical reasoning. Type III: modeling and application.
Scored tasks, full form
29 Type I, 4 Type II and 3 Type III. Field-test items that do not count are added.
Scored tasks, short form
24 Type I, 3 Type II and 3 Type III, worth 52 points.
Points by sub-claim
Major content 20, additional and supporting content 10, reasoning 10, modeling 12 (short form).
Units and calculator
Three units: 80 minutes each on the full form, 60 on the short form. Unit 1 is non-calculator; units 2 and 3 are calculator units.
Scores
Five performance levels on a scale of 650 to 850. In grade 8 mathematics Level 4 runs from 750 to 800 and Level 5 from 801 to 850.

Checked October 8, 2026 against New Meridian's mathematics blueprints, unit structure and evidence statement tables, and the PARCC score ranges printed by the District of Columbia's state education office. Rules change, so confirm with the agency itself before your test.

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All 52 questions

Major content 20

  • A box is 3 inches wide, 4 inches long and 12 inches tall. How long is the diagonal that runs through the inside of the box from one corner to the opposite corner? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 8.G.7-2, marked calculator
  • A calculator shows 4.2E−3 as the answer to a problem. Which number is that? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 8.EE.4-2, marked calculator
  • A lake holds about 8 × 10⁹ liters of water. A pond holds about 2 × 10⁶ liters. About how many times as much water does the lake hold? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 8.EE.3, marked non-calculator
  • A right triangle has legs of 4 centimeters and 7 centimeters. To the nearest thousandth, how long is the hypotenuse? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 8.G.7-1, marked calculator
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Major content, continued

  • A table pairs inputs with outputs: (1, 4), (2, 4), (3, 5) and (3, 6). Why is this not a function? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 8.F.1-1, marked non-calculator
  • Function P is y = −2x + 9. Function Q is linear, and its table has the points (1, 4), (2, 7) and (3, 10). Which statement is true? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 8.F.2, marked calculator
  • The graph of a proportional relationship is a line through (0, 0) and (4, 10). What is the unit rate? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 8.EE.5-1, marked calculator
  • Gym A charges $25 to join and $10 a visit. Gym B charges $5 to join and $15 a visit. After how many visits do the two gyms cost the same? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 8.EE.8c, marked calculator
  • How many solutions does this system have: y = 3x + 5 and y = 3x − 2? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 8.EE.8b-3, marked non-calculator
  • Lines m and n are parallel. Both are rotated 90° about the same point. What is true of their images? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 8.G.1c, marked non-calculator
  • On a line, moving from (1, 2) to (3, 6) is a rise of 4 for a run of 2. Between two other points on the same line the run is 5. What is the rise? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 8.EE.6, marked calculator
  • The point (−4, 7) is reflected across the x-axis. What are the coordinates of its image? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 8.G.3, marked non-calculator
  • Printer A prints 90 pages in 4 minutes at a steady rate. Printer B prints p pages in m minutes, where p = 21m. Which statement is true? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 8.EE.5-2, marked calculator
  • Solve the system: 2x + 3y = 12 and x − y = 1. Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 8.EE.8b-1, marked non-calculator
  • Solve: (1/2)x + 5 = (3/4)x − 1. Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 8.EE.7b, marked non-calculator
  • Solve: 3(2x − 4) = 4x + 6. Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 8.EE.7b, marked non-calculator
  • What is (6 × 10⁵) + (3 × 10⁴)? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 8.EE.4-1, marked non-calculator
  • What is the solution of x³ = 27? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 8.EE.2, marked non-calculator
  • Which expression is equivalent to (2³)² × 2⁻⁴? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 8.EE.1, marked non-calculator
  • Which of these equations has a straight line as its graph? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 8.F.3-1, marked non-calculator

Additional and supporting content 10

  • A cone has a radius of 6 centimeters and a height of 10 centimeters. What is its volume in terms of π? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim B, additional and supporting content, evidence statement 8.G.9, marked calculator
  • A gift card loses the same amount each week. After 4 weeks its balance is $260, and after 10 weeks it is $200. Which function gives the balance B, in dollars, after w weeks? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim B, additional and supporting content, evidence statement 8.F.4, marked calculator
  • A graph shows the height of a tossed ball over time. It rises along a curve to a highest point and then falls along a curve. Which description fits the function? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim B, additional and supporting content, evidence statement 8.F.5-1, marked non-calculator
  • A line of fit for taxi fares is c = 2.5m + 3, where c is the cost in dollars and m is the miles driven. What does the 3 mean? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim B, additional and supporting content, evidence statement 8.SP.3, marked calculator
  • A sphere has a radius of 3 inches. What is its volume in terms of π? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim B, additional and supporting content, evidence statement 8.G.9, marked calculator
  • A two-way table shows 120 students. Of the 70 with a pet, 25 walk to school. Of the 50 without a pet, 15 walk to school. What fraction of the students who walk have a pet? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim B, additional and supporting content, evidence statement 8.SP.4, marked calculator
  • Between which two numbers is √20? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim B, additional and supporting content, evidence statement 8.NS.2, marked non-calculator
  • On a scatter plot of hours of screen time and hours of sleep, the points fall from left to right close to a straight line. What kind of association is this? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim B, additional and supporting content, evidence statement 8.SP.1, marked non-calculator
  • What is 5/6 written as a decimal? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim B, additional and supporting content, evidence statement 8.NS.1, marked non-calculator
  • Which fraction is equal to the repeating decimal 0.454545...? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim B, additional and supporting content, evidence statement 8.NS.1, marked non-calculator

Reasoning 10

  • A $50 shirt is marked 20% off. Later the sale price is raised by 20%. Ana says the shirt is back at $50. Is she right? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim C, reasoning, evidence statement 8.C.6, marked calculator
  • A line has a slope of 2 and crosses the y-axis at (0, 3). For any other point (x, y) on the line, the slope from (0, 3) is (y − 3)/x = 2. Which equation of the line follows? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim C, reasoning, evidence statement 8.C.1.1, marked calculator
  • A triangle has sides of 8, 15 and 17 units. Is it a right triangle? Choose the correct reasoning. Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim C, reasoning, evidence statement 8.C.5.3, marked calculator
  • Are the points (1, 2), (3, 6) and (6, 11) on one straight line? Choose the correct reasoning. Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim C, reasoning, evidence statement 8.C.5.1, marked calculator
  • Is y = x² a linear function? Choose the correct reasoning. Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim C, reasoning, evidence statement 8.C.3.1, marked calculator
  • The point (2, 5) lies on the graph of y = 2x + 1 but not on the graph of y = x + 4. What does that show? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim C, reasoning, evidence statement 8.C.1.2, marked calculator
  • Three adult tickets and two child tickets cost $46. One adult ticket and two child tickets cost $26. A student subtracts the equations to get 2a = 20 and a = 10, then writes 10 + 2c = 26, so c = 16. Where is the error? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim C, reasoning, evidence statement 8.C.4.1, marked calculator
  • To solve 5x + 3 = 5x − 2, a student subtracts 5x from both sides and gets 3 = −2. What does this show? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim C, reasoning, evidence statement 8.C.2, marked calculator
  • Triangle A has sides of 3, 4 and 5 units. Triangle B has sides of 6, 8 and 10. Dev says they are congruent because B is A dilated by a scale factor of 2. What is the flaw? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim C, reasoning, evidence statement 8.C.3.2, marked calculator
  • Two angles of a triangle measure 48° and 67°. What is the measure of the exterior angle at the third vertex, and why? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim C, reasoning, evidence statement 8.C.3.3, marked calculator

Modeling 12

  • A bike shop's rental cost is a linear function of time: 1 hour costs $17, 2 hours cost $24 and 3 hours cost $31. What does a 6-hour rental cost? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim D, modeling, evidence statement 8.D.1, marked calculator
  • A circular pond is 10 meters across. A path 1 meter wide runs all the way around it. Using 3.14 for π, what is the area of the path? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim D, modeling, evidence statement 8.D.2, marked calculator
  • A factory makes about 4 × 10⁴ bolts an hour and runs 20 hours a day. About how many bolts does it make in 30 days? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim D, modeling, evidence statement 8.D.1, marked calculator
  • A farm stand sells 40 baskets of berries for $304 in all. Small baskets cost $6 and large baskets cost $10. How many large baskets were sold? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim D, modeling, evidence statement 8.D.1, marked calculator
  • A jacket costs $80. It is marked 25% off, and then 8% sales tax is added to the sale price. What is the total cost? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim D, modeling, evidence statement 8.D.2, marked calculator
  • A plant grew 12 centimeters in its first 3 weeks. A student models its growth as proportional to time. What does the model predict for 8 weeks, and how should the result be read? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim D, modeling, evidence statement 8.D.3, marked calculator
  • A rectangular park is 60 meters wide and 80 meters long. Kim walks along two sides from one corner to the opposite corner. Lee walks straight across. How much shorter is Lee's walk? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim D, modeling, evidence statement 8.D.1, marked calculator
  • A school has about 600 students. Each drinks about 2 cartons of milk on each of about 180 school days. About how many cartons is that in a year? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim D, modeling, evidence statement 8.D.4, marked calculator
  • On a map, 2 centimeters stand for 5 kilometers. Two towns are 9 centimeters apart on the map. A cyclist rides between them at 15 kilometers an hour. How long does the ride take? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim D, modeling, evidence statement 8.D.2, marked calculator
  • Tank A holds 240 liters and drains 20 liters a minute. Tank B holds 60 liters and fills 10 liters a minute. How much water is in each tank when the two hold the same amount? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim D, modeling, evidence statement 8.D.1, marked calculator
  • Team A scored 12, 15, 9, 18 and 16 points in five games. Team B scored 20, 8, 14, 10 and 13. How much greater is Team A's mean score? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim D, modeling, evidence statement 8.D.2, marked calculator
  • Three friends each buy a movie ticket and a $4 snack. A coupon takes $6 off the whole order, and they pay $57. What is the price of one ticket? Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim D, modeling, evidence statement 8.D.1, marked calculator

How this list was compiled: Outline: the Grade 8 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables of the PARCC test design, https://resources.newmeridiancorp.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Grade-8-Math-Evidence-Statements_with-ABO-subclaim-points_a11y.pdf, with the short-form Mathematics High Level Blueprint, https://resources.newmeridiancorp.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/NMC-Math-ABO-High-Level-Blueprint.pdf, both published by New Meridian and linked from https://resources.newmeridiancorp.org/math-test-design/, read 2026-10-08. Each question names the sub-claim, the evidence statement and the calculator mark the tables give it. Every answer is worked out again from the numbers in the question. Licence: Own work. Questions, answer choices and explanations were written for this site from the published evidence statements. Nothing is copied or reworded from a PARCC test, a released item, a practice test, an example in the evidence tables or another practice test.

How it works

Unofficial practice for eighth grade math, one question for each of the 52 points in the short-form PARCC blueprint. None is a real or released item. Not affiliated with New Meridian, CCSSO or any state that has given PARCC tests.

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Where the 52 points go

Major content takes 20: exponents and scientific notation, slope, linear equations and systems, functions, transformations and the Pythagorean theorem. Additional and supporting content takes 10: irrational numbers, building a function from data, volume, scatter plots and two-way tables. Reasoning takes 10 and modeling 12. The modeling tasks reach back to grade 7 percent, scale and circle problems.

Which skills are non-calculator

The evidence tables mark each grade 8 skill. Exponent rules, roots, equations and systems solved by hand, the definition of a function and transformations are non-calculator. Unit rate and slope, the Pythagorean theorem, volume and two-way tables are calculator skills, as are all reasoning and modeling tasks. The line under each answer here carries that mark.

  • Estimate before a calculator question: the square root of 65 must sit just above 8.
  • For a system, test your pair in both equations. Each wrong choice often fits one of them.

Questions and answers

Can you use a calculator on the 8th grade PARCC math test?

On two of its three units. The unit structure makes unit 1 non-calculator and units 2 and 3 calculator units, on the full form and the short form alike.

How long is the 8th grade PARCC math test?

Three units. Each unit is 80 minutes on the full form and 60 minutes on the short form.

How many questions are on the 8th grade PARCC math test?

The full-form blueprint lists 36 scored tasks: 29 Type I, 4 Type II and 3 Type III. The short form lists 30: 24, 3 and 3. Field-test items that do not count are added to both.

Is PARCC still given in 8th grade?

Not under that name in the two places checked here. The District of Columbia was a PARCC member from 2015 to 2023 and now gives DC CAPE. New Jersey, where PARCC tests began in 2014-15, now gives the NJSLA.

What is a passing PARCC math score in 8th grade?

The test design names five performance levels on a scale of 650 to 850, not a pass mark. The District of Columbia's state education office prints Level 4 for grade 8 mathematics as 750 to 800.

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