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title: "Georgia Milestones End-of-Course test: Biology"
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course: Biology
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# Georgia Milestones End-of-Course test: Biology

What the Georgia Milestones end-of-course test for Biology covers, from the state's assessment blueprint: its reporting categories and their points, the standards each category assesses, how complex the questions are meant to be, and the kinds of questions on it.

- Test: Georgia Milestones, End-of-Course test, Biology
- Total points: 46
- Standards assessed: 6

## Reporting categories

Points are the blueprint's approximate figures. Each percent is of the test's 46 points, rounded; a range such as 7–8 counts at its midpoint.

### Ecology: 12 points, about 26% of the test

- **SB5 (a, b, c, d, e)**: Ecosystem Interdependence. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SB5.md

### Cellular Genetics & Heredity: 11 points, about 24% of the test

- **SB2 (a, b, c)**: Genetic Information Expression. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SB2.md
- **SB3 (a, b, c)**: Heredity and Trait Transmission. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SB3.md

### Cells: 9 points, about 20% of the test

- **SB1 (a, b, c, d, e)**: Cell Structures and Functions. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SB1.md

### Theory of Evolution: 8 points, about 17% of the test

- **SB6 (a, b, c, d, e)**: Theory of Evolution. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SB6.md

### Classification & Phylogeny: 6 points, about 13% of the test

- **SB4 (a, b, c)**: Organism Systems Organization. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SB4.md

## Depth of Knowledge

From the blueprint: "Depth of Knowledge (DOK) is measured on a scale of 1 to 4 and refers to the level of cognitive demand (different kinds of thinking) required to complete an assessment item."

- Level 1: 5 to 9 points (10% to 20%)
- Level 2: 23 to 28 points (50% to 60%)
- Level 3: 12 to 16 points (25% to 35%)
- Level 4: not on this test

## Kinds of questions

- 1-point Selected-Response and Technology-Enhanced Items: 30 items, 30 points
- 2-point Technology-Enhanced Items: 8 items, 16 points
- Field Test Items: 4 items, 0 points (field test questions do not count toward the score)
- **Total**: 42 items, 46 points

## Achievement levels

For the subjects and grades Georgia tests, Georgia Homeroom shows what each Milestones achievement level means in practice, using the state's own descriptions. Georgia publishes these descriptions for tested content, so they are not available for every standard. On this test, 6 of the 6 standards have them; each standard's page shows them.

## How this test counts

Under Georgia State Board of Education Rule 160-4-2-.13, an End-of-Course test is the final exam for its course, and its score counts for at least 10% of the student's final grade in the course.

- The rule: https://apps.gadoe.org/sboe/SBOE%20Rules/160-4-2-.13.pdf

## Practice tests

The Georgia Department of Education's Georgia Milestones page links the state's online practice tests, Experience Online Testing Georgia.

- Experience Online Testing Georgia: https://www.gaexperienceonline.com/
- Georgia Milestones at the Georgia Department of Education: https://gadoe.org/assessment-accountability/georgia-milestones/

## More

- Every Georgia Milestones test: https://georgiahomeroom.org/milestones.md
- Esta página en español: https://georgiahomeroom.org/es/milestones/biology.md
- Every standards list, by subject and grade: https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/index.md

Source: Georgia Milestones Assessment Blueprint, published by the Georgia Department of Education. Georgia Homeroom is not affiliated with the Georgia Department of Education.