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Provincial assessment · British Columbia

Foundation Skills Assessment, Grade 4

Foundation Skills Assessment — Grade 4 (Literacy + Numeracy)

  • Grade 4

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Total time
3 h 45 min
Marked questions
66
Marked parts
4
Calculator
In some parts
Format
Paper and computer

FSA Grade 4 practice test

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When

Fall 2026

  1. September 28 to November 6, 2026Online components 8 AM–4 PM, Monday to Friday · All FSA components (schools schedule the sessions)

The dates are British Columbia’s own, read on September 28, 2026. See the official schedule (gov.bc.ca)

What’s on it

  • Literacy
    Booklet 12 points + online 30 pointsReported on its own (proficiency level)

Numeracy

Booklet 12 points + online 30 points · Reported on its own (proficiency level)

  • Number and Computational Fluency
    Of numeracy questions
  • Patterns
  • Geometry and Measurement
  • Data and Probability
The skills it tests · 43 skills
  • Adding and subtracting bigger numbers
  • Alliteration
  • Apostrophe use in contractions
  • Character
  • Conflict
  • Considering audience
  • Counting money and understanding earning
  • Describing likelihood with a simulation
  • Descriptive language
  • Editing
  • Expressing opinions
  • Figurative language
  • Finding growing and shrinking patterns
  • Functions of text
  • Genres of text
  • Getting fast with facts to 20
  • Imagery
  • Images
  • Locating the main idea and details
  • Making 3D shapes
  • Measuring length, mass, and capacity
  • Monitoring
  • Plot
  • Poetic language
  • Predicting from illustrations and prior knowledge
  • Punctuation
  • Reading and building graphs and tables
  • Reading clocks and calendars
  • Rereading
  • Retelling in your own words
  • Revising
  • Rhyme
  • Rhythm
  • Saying the rule for a pattern
  • Setting
  • Simile
  • Solving for an unknown number
  • Structure of compound sentences
  • Theme
  • Understanding numbers to 1000
  • Using text features
  • What a fraction shows
  • What multiplying and dividing mean
From the courseEnglish Language Arts 3Its Course CompanionEnglish Language Arts 3From the courseMathematics 3Its Course CompanionMathematics 3

How it’s built

Written answers, an essay, multiple-choice questions, questions in sets and numerical-response questions.

  1. Collaboration activityNot marked
    Time
    15 min
    • A task
  2. Literacy: student response booklet
    Time
    45 min
    Questions
    3
    Marks
    12
    Of the marks
    14%
    • Written answers
    • Essay

    Read the two texts of the theme you chose, answer one question on each, and one about your own connection, in writing. Each answer is worth 4 points.

  3. Numeracy: student response booklet
    Time
    45 min
    Questions
    3
    Marks
    12
    Of the marks
    14%
    • Written answers

    Three real-life problems, worth 4 points each, written out. They may need several parts and steps.

  4. Literacy: online
    Time
    60 min
    Questions
    30
    Marks
    30
    Of the marks
    36%
    • Multiple choice
    • Questions in sets

    Thirty questions on different texts, with drop-down menus, drag and drop, multiple choice, matching and more. A short reflection, not marked, follows.

  5. Numeracy: online
    Time
    60 min
    Questions
    30
    Marks
    30
    Of the marks
    36%
    • Multiple choice
    • Numerical response
    • Questions in sets

    Thirty questions in real-life situations, with drop-down menus, drag and drop, multiple choice, graphing and more. A short reflection, not marked, follows.

  6. Self-reflectionsNot marked
    Time
    5 min
    • Multiple choice
    • Written answers

How it’s marked

  1. Emerging
  2. On Track
  3. Extending

A computer marks the online questions, and your school or district marks the booklet answers. There's no pass or fail: your results are reported on the province's proficiency scale, as Emerging, On Track or Extending.

On the day

  1. FirstA 15-minute group activity that introduces the theme, then the literacy booklet on paper.
  2. Then, on days your school setsThe numeracy booklet on paper (45 minutes), and literacy and numeracy online (60 minutes each).
  3. After each partAbout 5 minutes to reflect on how it went.

It starts with a group activity that introduces the theme, then you work on your own: literacy and numeracy, each with a paper booklet and an online part. You may use any calculator in the numeracy parts.

Getting ready

2 official documents to practise with, and 3 tips.

Official practice

Tips from the people who write it

  • The group activity at the start is designed to feel like class, not an exam.
  • Your written booklet answers count: practise explaining your thinking on paper.
  • Your results come home with your booklet; read them against the proficiency scale.

After the exam

Results

Once marking is done, the school sends the report home with the child’s response booklet. Final results reach schools by early spring, and a level can still change before then.

Marks

It doesn’t affect marks or report cards, and BC says students don’t need to prepare for it.

If you miss it

A child who misses part of it makes it up within the assessment window. A child is excused only after the school has talked with the parents.

From 2026–27 FSA Administration Manual (gov.bc.ca) and Foundation Skills Assessment for Parents and Caregivers (curriculum.gov.bc.ca), read on October 27, 2026.

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Questions about this exam

How long is the Foundation Skills Assessment, Grade 4?

It takes 3 hours 45 minutes in all, over 4 parts.

How many questions are on the Foundation Skills Assessment, Grade 4?

It has 66 marked questions: 3 in Literacy: student response booklet, 3 in Numeracy: student response booklet, 30 in Literacy: online and 30 in Numeracy: online.

Can you use a calculator on the Foundation Skills Assessment, Grade 4?

In some parts only: Numeracy: student response booklet and Numeracy: online.

How are Foundation Skills Assessment, Grade 4 results reported?

At 3 levels: Emerging, On Track and Extending.

Where can I find practice tests for the Foundation Skills Assessment, Grade 4?

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