California Science Test

Welcome to Albert's California Science Test course!

This page provides specific content-related information for Albert's CAST prep course, including how it is organized, what standards it is aligned to, and ideas for classroom uses. If you need technical assistance, please visit our Help Center or contact hello@albert.io.

For testing information or details about the exam itself, visit the California Department of Education.

Albert's CAST course is organized into themes and further broken into short, formative assessments on specific topics.

Within each theme, you'll find a set of short, formative topic quizzes. Each topic quiz is designed to be given in a single class period. The quiz questions mimic the rigor and format of the actual exam. For example, here are some topic quizzes within the Biology topic quiz theme:

Every question is aligned to the standards outlined by the Next Generation Science Standards for California Public Schools. Each standard begins with the state abbreviation CA.

You can find questions aligned to learning standards using our standards search tool. In the Standards drop-down at the top of the Assessments tab, you can search for standards by name (for example, CA HS-LS2-7) or description. When you type in characters that match one of the standards, the drop-down will populate with matching standards.

For more help on finding questions using standards, visit our Help Center.

CAST uses 6 question types to provide students with a variety of practice that mimics the actual exam. These question types include:

Students will have access to an embedded Desmos calculator and a reference sheet during the entire science test. Read full details here.

For additional material, you can combine CAST with our other core courses, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Earth and Space Science. Our core courses are aligned to California standards, so you can leverage thousands of aligned practice questions across Albert to assess, reteach, and extend student learning.

Our Help Center is available any time and provides articles written by the Albert team to answer questions you might have about implementing Albert in your classroom.