New York City SHSAT 2017

YOU CAN GO BACK TO THE VERBAL SECTION ONCE YOU’VE FINISHED THE MATH SECTION Most standardized tests don’t let you move between s ...

Protective coloration is not absolute; it changes ( 35 )and evolves. One example of adaptive coloration concerns the English pep ...

THERE IS NO PENALTY FOR WRONG ANSWERS Don’t leave anything blank on the SHSAT. A correct answer is a correct answer. It makes no ...

36. The feature of the chameleon discussed in this passage is its ability to (F) camouflage itself despite frequent changes in l ...

THE SHSAT ANSWER GRID HAS NO HEART Don’t lose valuable points on the test by misgridding! The answer choices are labeled A–E and ...

1979 Voyager missions that forever changed our ( 15 )impressions of these bodies. All four of the moons, named after Jupiter’s l ...

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(F) attack the Copernican theory of the solar system. (G) make accurate measurements of the diameters of Jupiter’s moons. (H) en ...

Approaching SHSAT Questions Strategically As important as it is to know the setup of the SHSAT, it is equally important to have ...

THINK ABOUT THE QUESTIONS BEFORE YOU LOOK AT THE ANSWERS It’s hard to emphasize strenuously enough precisely how important this ...

(F) the size of Io’s molten lakes (G) the disappearance of impact sites on Europa (H) the discovery of volcanic activity on Io ( ...

USE BACKDOOR STRATEGIES AND GUESS You’ll learn more about backdoor strategies later, but the gist of them is that sometimes ther ...

taken from a child who had cowpox. The boy ( 35 )developed a slight infection. Later, Jenner inoculated the boy with smallpox ma ...

PACE YOURSELF The SHSAT gives you a lot of questions in a relatively short period of time. To get through the test, you need to ...

(F) 1122 BCE (G) the ninth century CE (H) 1796 (J) 1966 (K) 1980 As discussed in this passage, one disadvantage of variolation ...

LOCATE QUICK POINTS IF YOU’RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME Some questions can be answered more quickly than others. Some are simply amena ...

(F) vaccination did not prevent all forms of the disease. (G) not enough was known about immunity to disease. (H) there was no e ...

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Inside the SHSAT HIGHLIGHTS The SHSAT is a standardized test, which means that it is pretty predictable. Although the Department ...