Cracking the New York City Specialized High Schools Admissions Test, Second Edition

About This Book

The Princeton Review realizes that acing the New York City Specialized High Schools Admissions Test is very different from getting straight A's in school. We don't try to teach you everything there is to know about reading, writing, and arithmetic. We only teach you what you need to know to score higher on the exam and get into the high school of your choice. In Cracking the New York City Specialized High Schools Admissions Test, we'll teach you how to think like the test writers and

·Eliminate answer choices using Process of Elimination and other techniques
·Answer questions you are unsure of by guessing intelligently
·Ace the reading comprehension questions by using clues in the answer choices
·Earn more points by Plugging In numbers on algebra problems
·Pace yourself in order to make teh most of your time and score higher

This book includes a full-length practice SHSAT exam. All of our practice questions are like the ones you’ll see on the actual test, and we fully explain every solution.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS
PART I: THE BASICS 1
1 Introduction 3
2 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the SHSAT 7
PART II: SUBJECT REVIEW 11
3 SHSAT Pacing 13
4 SHSAT Math 17
5 SHSAT Verbal 65
6 Answer Key to SHSAT Drills 105
PART III: PRACTICE TEST AND EXPLANATIONS 117
7 Practice Test 119
8 Practice Test Explanations 147
About the Author 183