TACHS — FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2026

Catholic School Prep

TACHS

Test for Admission into Catholic High Schools — the entrance exam for the Archdiocese of New York, Brooklyn/Queens and Rockville Centre.

Friday, November 6, 2026

Saturday the 7th in Brooklyn/Queens and Rockville Centre. Registration closes October 28, 2026.

What 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.

Not published
  • 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.”
Published
  • 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
  • 210 feeder schools and 62 high schools

The quoted line is from the TACHS handbook’s own checklist. Everything above is in docs/EXAM-FACTS.md with the line it came from.

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 practise on.

Reading

88

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

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Written Expression

104

Two parts: revising a piece of writing, and finding the line that contains a mistake.

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Mathematics

640

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

Start practising

Ability

2,280

Figure Classification, Paper Folding and Figure Matrices.

Start practising

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.

See what a mock is
3,112

TACHS questions here

19

the TACHS publisher gives

0

practice tests it offers

2,280

Ability figures, drawn

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.