HSPT — THE MOCK PAPER

Catholic School Prep

A rehearsal, and an honest one

298 questions, 5 subtests, nothing marked until you hand it in. None of them has ever appeared in practice.

298

questions, the published make-up

Scholastic Testing Service prints the count for every section of this paper, so ours is built to it rather than to a number of ours.

143

minutes, and it hands itself in

Each section runs the standard time Scholastic Testing Service states, and the paper hands itself in when the time runs out, the way a proctor would.

298

questions held back

The paper is dealt from a pool practice cannot reach. A child who has practiced every day has still never seen one of these.

The paper, section by section

  • Verbal Skills60 questions18 minutespublished
  • Quantitative Skills52 questions30 minutespublished
  • Reading62 questions25 minutespublished
  • Mathematics64 questions45 minutespublished
  • Language60 questions25 minutespublished

Nothing is marked until a section is handed in — that is what makes it a rehearsal rather than practice, and it is the skill the day actually requires. The score afterwards is a raw score and is described as one: neither publisher releases the tables that turn raw answers into the number a school sees.

The only thing that costs money

The mock papers and the report

Practice tells your child whether they got a question right. A paper tells you something practice cannot: how they do across a whole sitting, answering 298 questions in a row without being told, on 298 questions they have never seen. The report afterwards says which topics the marks went missing in — which is the half a score does not tell you, and the half that decides what to do with the weeks that are left.

  • The TACHS paper and the HSPT paper
  • The report afterwards: every question, your answer, and what each wrong choice stands for
  • Where the marks went, topic by topic, and how many were left blank rather than got wrong
  • As many sittings as you like for the whole 2026–2027 season — every visit deals a fresh paper from the held-back pool, and nothing renews

Everything else on this site stays free and needs no account: all 1,854 practice questions, every explanation, both exam pages and everything on them. Buying does not unlock any of it, because none of it was locked.

$129

That is the total. No tax added at the end, no subscription, nothing that renews.

Ask for a refund within 30 days and you get it. No questions, no form, no “did you use it”.

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Not sure? Then don’t. Keep practicing — 1,854 questions, every explanation, no account and no card, and that is not a trial that runs out.

We are not able to tell you whether this is worth $129 to you, and the publisher of the HSPT advises parents to avoid expensive preparation materials. Try the free questions first — that is what they are there for.

Whose shape this paper is

Every section length above is Scholastic Testing Service's, transcribed from its own sample score report.

Full-length HSPT practice test · Catholic School Prep