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Writing rubrics for state tests and AP essays
The scoring rubrics your students are graded with on state writing tests and AP exams, laid out so you can read them on a phone, print them for class, or grade a stack of essays with them. Each page links to the official document and says when we last checked it.
Find your test
- Alabama3 rubrics
- Texas4 rubrics
- Smarter Balanced5 rubrics
- Florida4 rubrics
- AP®2 rubrics
- STAARSTAAR ECR Rubric, Grades 6–8 and English I–II (Argumentative)Grades 6–8, English I and English II · 5 points · Argumentative
- STAARSTAAR ECR Rubric, Grades 3–5 (Argumentative/Opinion)Grades 3–5 · 5 points · Argumentative/Opinion
- STAARSTAAR Reading Short Constructed Response (SCR) RubricGrades 3–8, English I and English II · 2 points
- STAARSTAAR Writing Short Constructed Response (SCR) RubricGrades 3–8, English I and English II · 1 point
Smarter Balanced
All Smarter Balanced rubrics and test notes- Smarter BalancedSmarter Balanced Argumentative Writing Rubric: Grades 6–11Grades 6–11 · 10 points · Argumentative
- Smarter BalancedSmarter Balanced Explanatory Writing Rubric: Grades 6–11Grades 6–11 · 10 points · Explanatory
- Smarter BalancedSmarter Balanced Informational Writing Rubric: Grades 3–5Grades 3–5 · 10 points · Informational/Explanatory
- Smarter BalancedSmarter Balanced Narrative Writing Rubric: Grades 3–8Grades 3–8 · 10 points · Narrative
- Smarter BalancedSmarter Balanced Opinion Writing Rubric: Grades 3–5Grades 3–5 · 10 points · Opinion
- B.E.S.T. WritingFlorida B.E.S.T. Writing Argumentation Rubric, Grades 4–6Grades 4–6 · 12 points · Argumentation
- B.E.S.T. WritingFlorida B.E.S.T. Writing Argumentation Rubric, Grades 7–10Grades 7–10 · 12 points · Argumentation
- B.E.S.T. WritingFlorida B.E.S.T. Writing Expository Rubric, Grades 4–6Grades 4–6 · 12 points · Expository
- B.E.S.T. WritingFlorida B.E.S.T. Writing Expository Rubric, Grades 7–10Grades 7–10 · 12 points · Expository
Why these pages exist
Most state rubrics live inside long scoring-guide PDFs that are hard to read on a phone and easy to confuse with an older edition. Copies passed around between schools drift: a level gets renamed, a trait gets dropped, or the point total stops matching the test. We rebuilt each rubric from the publisher’s current document and put the source, the version and the date we checked it on the page, so you can see for yourself that it matches.
The same rubric is in the EasyClass grader. When you grade with it, the scores come back per criterion with the same point values you see here. Read how we check rubrics.
Questions teachers ask
Are these the official rubrics?
Each page follows the official rubric’s structure exactly: the same criteria, point values and score levels, in the same order. Some pages use the publisher’s own wording; others describe each level in our words because the publisher doesn’t allow copying. Every page says which, and links to the official document.
Can I print a rubric or put it in Google Docs?
Yes. Every rubric page has a Print button that prints only the rubric, with a line for the student’s name and score, and a Copy table button that pastes the rubric into Google Docs, Word or Slides as a real table.
How do you keep the rubrics current?
Each page shows the version of the official document and the date we last compared the two. When a state changes its test, we update or retire the page. The method page explains what we compare.
Can EasyClass grade essays with these rubrics?
Yes. The button on each page opens the EasyClass grader with that rubric already picked. It scores each criterion and writes feedback, and nothing goes back to a student until you approve it.
Grade a stack of essays tonight.
Pick any rubric above, upload your students’ essays, and check every score before it goes back.