SHSAT
The NYC specialized-schools test: revising and editing drawn as sentence surgery, and every math topic the grid-ins can reach.
15 units · 268 topics · 1,330 questions
Whole-passage revision: the claim that opens it, the details that earn their place, the arrow each transition draws, and the order that makes it read.
How Revising/Editing Part A Works · Reading the Passage Before the Questions · Introducing the Main Claim · Introductory Statements That Set Up a Paragraph · +13 more
Grade 7 conventions: agreement, modifiers that hook the wrong noun, the joints between clauses, and folding two sentences into one that says more.
The Three Part B Task Formats · One-Shot Items: Eliminate, Commit, Advance · Hot Text and Inline Choice Items · The Grade 7 Language Standards Behind Part B · +31 more
Every genre the ELA section can hand you, from myths to economic accounts, and what each one rewards and punishes before you reach question one.
Literary Texts and Informational Texts · Literary: Poetry · Literary: Adventure Stories · Literary: Historical Fiction · +16 more
The eight things a reading question can ask, drawn: circles for scope, lines for evidence, a dial for connotation, a dotted box one step past the facts.
Central Idea · Author's Purpose · Textual Evidence · Summarizing a Text · +7 more
The rules of the new digital test as machinery: one-way doors, a branching question tree, a 180 minute bar you split yourself, and the on-screen tools.
Answering Only From the Text · Working a Passage Set You Can Still Change · No Skipping, and the Educated Guess · How the Adaptive Test Picks Your Next Question · +7 more
The one text type most students have never answered a multiple-choice question about: lines, breaks, stanzas, images, figures, speaker, tone and sound.
The Line as a Unit of Meaning · Line Breaks and Enjambment · Stanzas and How a Poem Is Built · Imagery · +6 more
The arithmetic half of the ceiling — signed numbers, fractions, decimals, factors — all of it from NYS Grade 6 and 7, and all of it without a calculator.
The Grade-Level Ceiling: What the Math Section Can Ask · Integers, Opposites, and the Number Line · Adding and Subtracting Signed Numbers · Multiplying and Dividing Signed Numbers · +11 more
Unit rate, the constant of proportionality, and the whole percent family — tip, tax, discount, markup, commission, interest and error — plus unit conversion.
Ratios and Equivalent Ratios · Unit Rate and Rates Built from Fractions · Proportional Relationships and the Constant of Proportionality · Recognizing Proportionality in a Table, Graph, or Equation · +12 more
Writing an expression, rewriting it, solving it — and the word problems where most SHSAT math actually lives: consecutive integers, coins, mixture and work.
Writing Algebraic Expressions from Words · Evaluating Expressions · Combining Like Terms · The Distributive Property · +15 more
GRADE 9 FORMS ONLY. Everything New York adds in Grade 8: exponents, scientific notation, roots, irrationals, slope, functions, systems and scatter plots.
Properties of Integer Exponents · Zero and Negative Exponents · Scientific Notation · Multiplying and Dividing in Scientific Notation · +15 more
The Equation Editor, the fill-in-the-blank and drag-and-drop item types, the formulas nobody hands you, and the one-way clock you cannot walk back.
The Equation Editor and Its Palette · Entering Fractions, Roots, and Exponents · Inequality, Absolute Value, and the Multiplication Dot · Math Fill in the Blanks · +11 more
Angles, triangles, area, circles, surface area and volume: the Grade 7 geometry that lands on every SHSAT form, with no formula sheet to lean on.
Mathematical Terms and Symbols You Must Know · Complementary, Supplementary and Adjacent Angles · Vertical Angles and Linear Pairs · Angles Formed When a Transversal Cuts Parallel Lines · +21 more
Everything in this unit appears ONLY on Grade 9 test forms: the Pythagorean theorem, cone and sphere volume, transformations, coordinates and scatter plots.
What the Grade 9 Forms Add · The Pythagorean Theorem · The Converse: Testing Whether a Triangle Is Right · Pythagorean Triples Worth Memorizing · +14 more
Averages, data displays, sampling and probability models: the Grade 7 statistics strand, which turns up on Grade 8 and Grade 9 forms alike.
Mean, Median, Mode and Range · Choosing the Right Measure of Center · Working Backwards From an Average · Combining Groups and Weighted Averages · +20 more
The guide's own promise, drawn out: familiar skills braided into complex multi-step items where ratio, percent, units and geometry all land in one question.
Ratio and Perimeter in One Problem · Ratio and Area in One Problem · Unit Conversion Inside a Geometry Problem · Chained Conversions and Rate Problems · +9 more