New York City SHSAT 2017

About the Author Darcy L. Galane is Project Manager for Graduate Product Research and Development at Kaplan; while writing this ...

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SHSAT® (Specialized High Schools Admissions Test) is a registered trademark of the New York City Department of Education, which ...

A WORD ABOUT CALCULATORS This is an easy one. You cannot use a calculator on the SHSAT. Leave your calculator home. End of story ...

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Arithmetic Review HIGHLIGHTS Get an Overview of What Will Be on the Test Review the Arithmetic Content Review You Need to Know P ...

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Overview On the SHSAT, arithmetic means more than addition and subtraction. Arithmetic is the umbrella term for a wide range of ...

Consecutive Numbers These are numbers that follow one after another, in order, without skipping any. Consecutive integers: 3, 4, ...

ODDS AND EVENS NUMBER PROPERTIES Pick numbers to refresh your memory of their number properties. Example: Even = 2; Odd = 3 Even ...

POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES There are few things to remember about positives and negatives. You will not see many problems that focu ...

ABSOLUTE VALUE To find the absolute value of a number, simply strip the number within the vertical lines of its sign. When absol ...

FACTORS AND MULTIPLES To find the prime factorization of a number, keep breaking it down into factors of the number until you ar ...

If you need to find a common multiple of two integers, you can always multiply them. However, you can use prime factors to find ...

THE ORDER OF OPERATIONS You need to remember the order in which arithmetic operations must be performed. PEMDAS (or Please Excus ...

DIVISIBILITY RULES If you’ve forgotten—or never learned—divisibility rules, spend a little time with this chart. Even if you kno ...

FRACTIONS AND DECIMALS Generally, it’s a good idea to reduce fractions when solving math questions. To do this, simply cancel al ...

Compare and Because 16 is greater than 15, is greater than To convert a fraction to a decimal, divide the denominator into the n ...

vi. Convert the following fractions to decimals: Convert the following decimals to fractions: 0.15 = 0.64 = vii. ...

COMMON PERCENT EQUIVALENCIES Familiarity with the relationships among percents, decimals, and fractions can save you time on Tes ...