This assessment measures academic procrastination consisting of 2 sections and 44 different items. The first section contains 18 items measuring the incidence of procrastination in activities pertaining to the following six academic areas:

• completing a writing assignment
• studying for an exam
• keeping up with weekly reading assignments
• performing administrative tasks (e.g. filling out forms, registering for classes)
• attending meetings
• performing academic tasks in general.

For each area, the first item measures the frequency of procrastination for the task. The second item measures the degree to which academic procrastination causes a problem, and the third item the willingness of students to decrease their procrastination behavior. All were rated on a scale of 1 (never) to 5 (always).

The second section of the PASS assesses how much each of 26 separate reasons reflects why respondents procrastinated in completing a writing assignment.