SHSAT Test Prep

SHSAT Exam Information

The SHSAT or Specialized High Schools Admissions Test is a high school entrance exam taken by eighth and ninth grade students to get into certain high schools.

During this 3 hour exam, students are evaluated based on their understanding in areas of English and Mathematics comprehension.

Over 30,000 students take the SHSAT exam every year and only about 5,000 of these students are accepted to a school of their choice.
Students taking this exam are all competing for acceptance to any one of the desired schools listed below:

Staten Island Technical High School
Stuyvesant High School
Brooklyn Latin School
Brooklyn Technical High School
High School of American Studies at Lehman College
High School for Math, Science and Engineering at City College
Queens High School for the Sciences at York College
Bronx High School of Science

Math Parts of the Exam:

The math part of the exam is 57 questions.

There are 5 grid-in questions along with 52 multiple choice word problems and computational questions.

Topics include:

Basic mathematics
Pre-Algebra
Algebra
Factoring
Substitution
Geometry
Basic Coordinate Graphing
Logic
Word Problems

English Parts of the Exam:

The verbal part of the exam is 57 multiple choice questions.

There are 20 Revising and Editing questions, 5-8 standalone questions with 2 passages containing 6-8 questions each, and 6 reading passages with 5-7 questions per reading passage.

Here are the lowest scores for acceptance to a Specialized High School (SHSAT) for students who have taken the fall 2023 exam:

Staten Island Technical High School: 522
Stuyvesant High School: 575
Brooklyn Technical High School: 553
Queens High School for the Sciences at York College: 544
High School for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at City College: 540
The Bronx High School of Science: 530
Brooklyn Latin: 493
Bronx Science: 521
HSMSE at City College: 518
HSAS at Lehman: 510