Know your child's SHSAT score today.Raise it by test day.
A free 10-minute diagnostic estimates where your child stands right now — and exactly which topics are costing them points. No credit card.
20 questions · 10 minutes · free account, just an email
100
questions · ELA + Math
180
minutes · speed matters
700
max composite score
Reading inference
+12% this week
Today's focus
18 mistake reviews
Logic first, then speed
Benchmarked against all 8 NYC Specialized High Schools
Why families need a system
The SHSAT is hard because every point needs a strategy — not because there are a lot of questions.
It is the sole criterion for admission to eight of the city's most competitive high schools. It tests reading, mathematics, pacing and nerve at the same time. A pile of practice questions does not address that. A system that measures, targets and re-tests does.
ELA is more than vocabulary
Inference, author's intent, and revising/editing are where bilingual students quietly lose the most points.
Math demands flexible thinking
Grade 7–8 content wrapped in multi-step reasoning and trap answers. Memorising formulas is not enough.
108 seconds per question
The real differentiator is not knowledge — it is accuracy under time pressure and knowing when to move on.
Grid-ins have no safety net
Five math questions have no answer choices at all. Most students never practise them separately — and lose easy points.
What parents are buying
You're not buying a question bank. You're buying a daily plan your child will actually follow.
Diagnose first. Then target the weak topics, calibrate speed with timed mocks, and send you a report you can read in ninety seconds.
Diagnostic first
Ten minutes tells you the estimated score and how far it sits from the target school.
Mistakes come back
Missed questions return after 1 day, 3 days, a week, a month — until they are genuinely learned.
Real mock pacing
Timed, no feedback until the end, no going back — the same pressure as the real thing.
Reports parents can read
Minutes practised, accuracy trend, weakest three topics, and what to do next week.
You don't need to know the material to know it's working
The parent view is plain language, in English, Spanish or Chinese. It answers three questions every week: how much did they practise, where are they improving, and what should they fix next. No jargon, and no waiting for a failed mock to find out something is wrong.
Admission context
Turn a target score into weekly, trackable actions
Cutoffs move every year with the applicant pool. We use recent figures as benchmarks so families can plan early instead of cramming in September.
Approximate recent figures, shown for goal-setting only. They are not a prediction and not official.
Recent cutoff reference
All 8 Specialized High Schools
- Stuyvesant560
- Staten Island Tech525
- Bronx Science522
- HS American Studies512
- Queens Science510
- HSMSE505
- Brooklyn Tech493
- Brooklyn Latin472
Roadmap
The best time to start is earlier than you think
Take the diagnostic. Identify the gaps in ELA, Math, pacing and error type.
Targeted practice assigned by weakness, building a review cycle around mistakes.
Full mocks added. Reports shift to time strategy and closing the gap to the target school.
What NYC families actually pay
Private tutor
$80–150
/ hour
Prep course
$1,200–3,000
/ course
This program
$79
3 months, unlimited practice
FAQ
Questions parents ask
When should my child start preparing?
Most students who do well start 6–9 months before the October exam, working 20–30 minutes a day. Starting in the summer before 8th grade is the most common pattern. Cramming in September rarely moves a composite score more than 20 points.
How is this different from a prep center?
A prep center gives your child a fixed schedule and a fixed curriculum, whether or not they already know the material. This adapts to what your child actually misses, and it costs about a twentieth as much. What a center gives you that this cannot is a person sitting next to your child. Some students need that; many do not.
Do you guarantee admission to a specialized high school?
No, and you should be skeptical of anyone who does. Admission depends on your child's score relative to every other applicant that year. What we can do is show you honestly where your child stands and what is costing them points.
Can I cancel?
The monthly plan cancels from your account page in two clicks, and you keep access until the end of the period you have paid for. The 3- and 12-month plans do not renew at all, so there is nothing to cancel — we email you before they end. Cancelling is not the same as a refund: for a refund, email us within 7 days of paying and we return the full amount without asking why.
I don't read English well. Can I still follow my child's progress?
Yes. The practice questions stay in English because the exam is in English, but every page you read as a parent — the progress report, the weekly email, the score estimate — is available in Spanish and Chinese.
See where your child stands today.
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