Virginia SOL Science Practice Test for Grade 8

Students will answer grade-8-level science questions spanning life, physical, earth, and integrated science topics in this classroom practice set.

Students will apply science concepts such as chemical reactions, genetics, radioactive decay, and continental drift to answer discrete multiple-choice items.

Students will identify factors such as fossil-fuel combustion as primary contributors to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Use topic groups to select review questions. The printed 8.1–8.11 codes are not the official Grade 8 science blueprint’s Grade 6, LS and PS identifiers; remap selected items before claiming SOL alignment.

Treat the guide’s score bands and timing as classroom suggestions, not official SOL performance levels or test conditions.

Question 2 describes a data relationship without supplying a table. Add your own data display if you want students to practise reading one.

Cross-strand science recall — students answer multiple-choice items spanning life, physical, earth, and integrated science topics grouped into sections in the resource.

Scientific reasoning — students apply concepts such as the law of conservation of mass and continental-drift evidence to select correct answers.

Data interpretation — at least one item asks students to interpret a verbal description of a temperature/reaction-rate relationship to identify a positive correlation.