TACHS
Test for Admission into Catholic High Schools — the entrance exam for the Archdiocese of New York, Brooklyn/Queens and Rockville Centre.
Saturday, November 7, 2026 in Brooklyn/Queens and Rockville Centre. Registration closes October 28, 2026.
Not sure where to start?
Three questions from each of the four sections, marked and explained as you go. At the end it names the section to open first and the topics that caught your child out — not a score, which nothing this short could honestly give.
The four subtests, and what is here for each
Question counts are ours, not the exam’s — Riverside Assessments publishes none. Half of each bank is held back for the mock paper, which leaves 1,556 to practice on.
Reading
88Passages written for this product, with questions about detail, purpose, inference and a word in context.
Start practicingWritten Expression
104Two parts: revising a piece of writing, and finding the line that contains a mistake.
Start practicingAbility
2,280Figure Classification, Paper Folding and Figure Matrices. Each has its own page with real questions and the publisher's rules: figure classification, paper folding and figure matrices.
Start practicingWhat Riverside Assessments publishes, and what it does not
Saying we do not know, and here is who does not publish it
is the most credible thing a page in this market can do.
- How many questions the paper has
- How long you get for any of it
- How a raw score becomes the number a school sees
- How many children sit it each year
- Any practice test: “No online practice test is available.”
- 4 subtests: Reading, Written Expression, Mathematics, Ability
- The dates, and the registration deadline
- Five answers in Ability, four everywhere else
- Letters run A–E on odd questions and J–N on even ones
- 181 feeder schools and 62 high schools
The quoted line is from the TACHS handbook’s own checklist. Every source on this page is named here, with what it settles.
The mock paper
160 questions, 40 a subtest, marked only at the end. That number is ours — Riverside Assessments publishes no length, so there is no clock here either.
Or let it decide what to practice
Ten questions a day, chosen from what your child has already answered: something they got wrong last week, then something they have never tried, then whatever has had the least attention. It keeps the list of questions still unfixed and brings them back until they are. No score is predicted and no mastery percentage is invented — it works the way a tutor with a notebook would.
TACHS questions here
the TACHS publisher gives
practice tests it offers
Ability figures, drawn
Registration closes October 28, 2026, and there is no late registration.
We will email you now with the date, once before the deadline, and once in the week of the exam. Nothing else, and no account.
Questions about the TACHS
Riverside Assessments publishes less about the TACHS than any of these questions assumes, and the honest answer to three of them is what it does not say. Every one is quoted from a document the publisher wrote.
- How many questions are on the TACHS?
- Riverside Assessments does not publish a question count, or a time limit, for any subtest of the TACHS. Anyone who prints one has made it up. What is published is 19 sample questions in the Student Handbook, and the handbook’s own checklist says “No online practice test is available”. That is why a full TACHS paper here is built to a documented structure of ours and says so on the page, rather than being presented as the exam’s.
- How long is the TACHS?
- Riverside Assessments publishes no time limit for the TACHS, for any subtest or for the paper as a whole. The sitting itself is timed by the remote proctoring software, and the length is not stated in the handbook.
- What subtests are on the TACHS?
- Four: Reading, Written Expression, Mathematics and Ability. Every one of them has original practice questions here. Ability is the figure-based subtest, and it is three item types — Figure Classification, Paper Folding and Figure Matrices, which is the half of the TACHS that generic prep sites do not render at all.
- When is the TACHS?
- The next TACHS is Friday, November 6, 2026. The cycle’s dates are Friday, November 6, 2026 for the Archdiocese of New York, and Saturday, November 7, 2026 for the Diocese of Brooklyn/Queens and the Diocese of Rockville Centre. Children are assigned at random to an 8:30 AM or a 10:00 AM session on their diocese’s date, and no time preference is accepted.
- When does TACHS registration close?
- Registration opened August 24, 2026 and closes October 28, 2026, at 23:00 Eastern. Riverside Assessments prints “Do not miss the deadline!” in its own calendar, and there is no late registration. Children are registered online by a parent, not by the elementary school.
- How much does the TACHS cost?
- $78, non-refundable. The fee covers the Student Handbook, the online test materials and score reporting to three high schools of your choosing.
- Is the TACHS taken at home or at a school?
- At home. The handbook is blunt that this is not optional: “This test was created to be administered as a remote, at-home test. School offerings to test students in-site is not supported by TACHS.” The sitting is supervised by remote proctoring software, so the practical preparation includes the room and the machine, not only the questions.
- When do TACHS results come out?
- The Home Report opens after 3:00 PM EST on Friday, January 22, 2027, and the handbook adds “We cannot provide your results earlier.” Instructions for reaching it are published in early January on www.tachsinfo.com. What a parent is shown is a Local and a National percentile rank, sent to the three high schools they chose — not a mark, and not a score for each subtest.
- How is the TACHS scored?
- As percentile ranks, which are positions rather than marks: a rank of forty means the child scored higher than that share of the group they were compared with, and it cannot be converted into how many questions they got right. Riverside Assessments names a Local and a National rank and defines neither group, so nobody can tell you what either is compared against. The handbook is explicit about the rest: “All TACHS test results are final. No reviewing, rescoring, or retesting will be done.” And a student may take the exam only once.
- How many answer choices does each TACHS question have?
- Four in Reading, Written Expression and Mathematics, and five in Ability. The letters alternate — A–E on odd-numbered questions and J–N on even ones — which is a real feature of the answer sheet and the reason practice from a generic bank looks wrong the moment a child sees the paper. Every practice question here is lettered the way the paper letters it.
- Where can I find free TACHS practice questions?
- Here: 1,556 of the 3,112 original TACHS questions on this site are open for practice with no sign-up and no email, across four subtests. Each one is marked immediately and explains itself. The rest are held back for the full paper, so a mock is not made of questions already practiced.
Two questions with a page of their own
Riverside Assessments publishes no time limit for the TACHS, and 9 of the pages that come up for it state one anyway — 9 different ones. How long is the TACHS? — all 9 answers, measured, beside what the handbook actually says.
What comes back afterwards is a percentile rank rather than a mark, it cannot be reviewed or rescored, and the day it opens is fixed. When TACHS results come out, and what they say, quoted from the handbook; and what a good TACHS score is, which is that nobody publishes one.
Where these numbers come from
Every count on this page is read off the question banks themselves when the page is built, so none of them is typed and none can go stale. Every published fact is quoted from a document Riverside Assessments wrote, and each one is named on the sources page.