SHSAT:

The Route Into

the Specialized
High Schools
What is the SHSAT?
https://www.schools.nyc.gov/sign-up
Format
Verbal RE
● 57 questions ● 9-19 questions
● ~90 minutes total
● ~11 min/passage RC
● 38-48 questions
Sections Math Multiple Choice
● 57 questions ● 52 multiple choice
● ~90 minutes questions
● 1.5 min/question
Grid-In
● 5 grid-in questions

Scoring One raw point given per correct answer

READING COMPREHENSION TIPS
READING COMPREHENSION TIPS
REVISING & EDITING TIPS
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MATH TIPS
Grid-In Questions
Grid-In Questions
SUMMARY OF TEST-TAKING
STRATEGIES
REGISTRATION
 Why Take the SHSAT?
You can apply to eight specialized high schools by taking the Specialized High
Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT). These schools are:

● The Bronx High School of Science

● The Brooklyn Latin School
● Brooklyn Technical High School
● High School for Mathematics, Science and Engineering at City College of
New York
● High School of American Studies at Lehman College
● Queens High School for the Sciences at York College
● Staten Island Technical High School
● Stuyvesant High School
RANKINGS
Brooklyn Latin High School
Brooklyn Technical High School
Brooklyn Tech’s Major System
Bronx High School of Science
Bronx High School of Science
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow was an American novelist, editor, and professor, best known internationally for his works of historical fiction. He wrote
twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction and a stage drama.

“The human quest for knowledge, for knowing everything there is to know, will always face that expanding
circumference of darkness. That is what makes learning such an adventure. You will find that in the world great
progress is made in some ways, like curing disease, like inventing robotic devices, going into space, while in other
ways, as in our wars, our brutalization of others, our pollution of the natural world, we are faltering. It is possible that
our great technical achievements notwithstanding, our moral natures are not keeping up, that we have the brains but
not always the hearts to do the right thing. But there is always hope, and there is always the next generation coming
along to make things better. So that the circumference of darkness, which turns out to be the questions for which
science has no answer, can eventually be illuminated.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/nyregion/el-doctorow-graduation-speech-bronx-science.ht
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Stuyvesant High School
Humans of Stuy

https://humansofstuy.com/stories
A GUIDE TO THE SPECIALIZED HIGH
SCHOOLS
A GUIDE TO THE SPECIALIZED HIGH
SCHOOLS
A GUIDE TO THE SPECIALIZED HIGH
SCHOOLS
“The best way to predict your future
is to create it.” —Abraham Lincoln
You will all do great on this test! Keep your head up and continue all of the great work
you have been doing!
Best,
Fariya