Provincial Achievement Test · Alberta
Grade 9 Science Provincial Achievement Test
- Grade 9
Dates and details can change. We do our best to keep this page up to date, but check the official sources before relying on it.
- Total time
- 1 h 15 min
- Marked questions
- 55
- Calculator
- Any calculator
- Format
- On a computer
Grade 9 Science PAT practice test
The whole exam or the parts you choose, in its own format, on the clock.
The exam in the app
Its parts, and what you can use in each
A question, timed, with the exam’s tools
The marked result, part by part
A practice run of Saskatchewan’s Grade 9 math assessment.
Free with a MapleMind account
When
2 sessions this school year: January and June.
January 2027
- Tuesday, January 26, 20279:00–10:15 AM
June 2027
- Tuesday, June 22, 20279:00–10:15 AM
The dates are Alberta’s own, read on September 28, 2026. See the official schedule (alberta.ca)
What’s on it
- Biological Diversity20%11 questions
- Matter and Chemical Change20%11 questions
- Environmental Chemistry20%11 questions
- Electrical Principles and Technologies20%11 questions
- Space Exploration20%11 questions
The skills it tests · 42 skills
- Calculating efficiency
- Challenges of space travel
- Changing ideas about Earth and space
- Chromosomes, genes and DNA
- Circuits and components
- Classifying materials
- Combining ratios and models
- Conservation and everyday choices
- Conservation of mass
- Conservation strategies and biotechnology
- Dominant and recessive characteristics
- Energy conversions
- Energy inputs and outputs
- Evidence of chemical change
- Extinction and changing diversity
- Factors affecting distribution
- Generation and the environment
- Genetic technologies and their issues
- Helpful and harmful substances
- Heritable traits and variation
- Ionic vs. molecular compounds
- Measuring quantities of substances
- Monitoring air and water quality
- Natural and artificial selection
- Niches and symbiotic relationships
- Opportunities and alternatives
- Optical and radio telescopes
- Organisms and their chemical needs
- Origins of the periodic table
- Physical and chemical properties
- Reaction rates and energy
- Reading and naming chemical formulas
- Reading atomic structure from the table
- Reference frames and celestial motion
- Sexual vs. asexual reproduction
- Space probes and remote sensing
- Spin-off technologies
- Static and current electricity
- Transport and bioaccumulation
- Variation within and among species
- Voltage, current and resistance
- Word and formula equations
How it’s built
- Whole test
- Time
- 75 min
- Questions
- 55
- Marks
- 55
- Of the marks
- 100%
- Multiple choice
- Numerical response
- Questions in sets
55 questions, each worth 1 mark, in different formats. You can't use a dictionary or other reference materials.
How it’s marked
- Below the acceptable standard
- Acceptable standard
- Standard of excellence
A computer marks every question. Your results are reported against two provincial standards: the acceptable standard and the standard of excellence.
On the day
- Provided
- Grade 9 Science data sheet
One session on the computer, and everyone may take up to 150 minutes. The platform has a calculator, a ruler and a protractor, and the data sheet comes with the test.
Getting ready
1 official document to practise with, and 3 tips.
Official practice
Tips from the people who write it
- A calculator is recommended: the platform has one, and you may also bring your own.
- Practise with the sample data sheet, since the real one comes with the test.
- Important words you may not know are defined right on the page.
After the exam
- Results
The school shares early results with families by the end of the school year. The Individual Student Profile follows in early September 2027, on myPass and from the school.
- Marks
Whether the test counts in a school mark is up to the school authority.
- If you miss it
A student absent on test day writes it when they’re back, before the last scheduled day. The principal, with the parents, can ask for a student to be excused where writing would harm them or they can’t take part in a meaningful way.
From General Information Bulletin 2026–2027, Grades 6 and 9 Provincial Achievement Testing (alberta.ca), read on October 27, 2026.
More for you
Students
Start with the topics worth the most marks, then write full practice exams under the real time limit.
Practise itParents
Put the dates on the family calendar. The Parent Dashboard shows each practice exam’s result and the skills that need another look.
See the Parent DashboardEducators
The topic weights and the official practice above make a review plan. Students can practise each skill on its own in MapleMind, free with daily limits.
For schools
Questions about this exam
When is the Grade 9 Science Provincial Achievement Test in 2026–27?
The next sitting is January 26, 2027, 9:00–10:15 AM. This school year it’s written in January 2027 and June 2027.
How long is the Grade 9 Science Provincial Achievement Test?
It takes 1 hour 15 minutes in all, over 1 part.
How many questions are on the Grade 9 Science Provincial Achievement Test?
It has 55 marked questions.
Can you use a calculator on the Grade 9 Science Provincial Achievement Test?
Yes, any calculator.
How are Grade 9 Science Provincial Achievement Test results reported?
At 3 levels: Below the acceptable standard, Acceptable standard and Standard of excellence.
Where can I find practice tests for the Grade 9 Science Provincial Achievement Test?
Alberta publishes Grade 9 science practice tests + parent guide. MapleMind also builds a full practice exam in its format, free with an account.
Practise for the Grade 9 Science Provincial Achievement Test
Every skill on the Grade 9 Science Provincial Achievement Test, taught one at a time, then practised on questions written like the real ones.
