HSPT — SET BY EACH DIOCESE

Catholic School Prep

HSPT

High School Placement Test — used by Catholic dioceses outside the three New York ones, each of which sets its own date.

Set by each diocese298 questions · 143 minutes · published

The whole paper, as its publisher prints it

Scholastic Testing Service puts the make-up of the HSPT on a sample score report that anyone can download, down to the count for each skill area. Every figure below is transcribed from it, and a check in the build refuses to run if the areas stop adding up to their subtest.

Verbal Skills

60
18 min

Verbal Classification 17 · Synonyms 13 · Logic 11 · Analogy 10 · Antonyms 9

Quantitative Skills

52
30 min

Sequence 15 · Reasoning 15 · Non-Geometric Comparison 12 · Geometric Comparison 10

Reading

62
25 min

Comprehension: Informational Text 30 · Vocabulary 22 · Comprehension: Literary Text 10

Mathematics

64
45 min

Numbers & Numeration 29 · Geometry 12 · Statistics & Probability 9 · Measurements 7 · Algebra 7

Language

60
25 min

Composition 20 · Incorrect Usage 15 · Punctuation 10 · Spelling 10 · Correct Usage 3 · Capitalization 2

This is the whole difference between the two halves of this site.

Riverside publishes none of the above for the TACHS — no question count, no time limit, not one skill area. So our HSPT mock is the real shape and our TACHS mock is a shape of ours, and each page says which it is rather than letting you assume.

Start on a subtest

298 questions to practise on, and 298 more held back so the paper can ask something practice never has.

Verbal Skills

120

Analogies, logic, classification, synonyms and antonyms.

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Quantitative Skills

104

Sequences to continue, word arithmetic, and quantities to compare.

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Reading

124

Passages written for this product, with questions about detail, purpose, inference and a word in context.

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Mathematics

128

Five named areas, and every answer computed rather than typed.

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Language

120

Composition, usage, punctuation, spelling and capitalization.

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The mock paper

298 questions in 143 minutes, the shape Scholastic Testing Service publishes, and the paper hands itself in when the time runs out.

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Where these numbers come from

Every count on this page is read off the banks in this repository at build time, and every published fact is in docs/EXAM-FACTS.md with the line it was quoted from.