School districts use standardized tests to track students' progress toward the overall goal under No Child Left Behind of having students perform at grade level. At this point, NCLB requires state assessments of student abilities starting at the third grade in mathematics and reading, and will later do so for science as well.

The following are some sample reading and mathematics questions for third graders taken from past tests used by New York and Virginia.

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